Top 105 Austin Quotes

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare – this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

You’re supposed to not like the ‘Austin Powers‘ movies because people ruin the catchphrases. ‘Austin Powers’ is so funny.

A guy that I was supposed to face – and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time – that’s ‘Stone Cold‘ Steve Austin.

My biggest moment was me beating Stone Cold Steve Austin to win the championship.

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he’d buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Working on ‘Austin and Ally’ has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it’s scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other’s dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!

Austin Trout is just a name to me. He beat Cotto, so what?

You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn’t recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can’t stand them.

To give you an idea about how old I’m getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.

I’ve been surprised by Austin. I had a cowboy image of the place. It’s a pretty sophisticated city – in some ways, more sophisticated than Boston. And there’s a lighter feel to the place. It’s very good for my spirits.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

We try to put on a show that people can be proud of whether you are in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Austin, Tallahassee or Columbus, Ohio or wherever you are. We try to be symbolic of where you happen to be that Saturday. You tune into it, you see the energy, passion and love we have for the sport.

Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic ’70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.

I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing ‘Austin Powers,’ which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don’t think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I’m sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

I’m going to keep on going, day in and day out, be the same Tavon Austin.

Every time we do anything, Austin’s the No. 1 place of all that supports it. Austin is our biggest philanthropic helper, even for things that have nothing to do with Austin or Texas.

There’s so much music in Austin, and it’s all so different.

The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.

Austin Theory‘s young, super-talented and thinks he’s the cat‘s meow. But I’m just going to punish him. It’s going to be pretty funny to see his eyes after the first few minutes when he realizes that there’s nowhere to run.

I’ll tell you right now, man, if WWE was to call me and say, ‘Hey, Book, we want you to do a match with ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin,’ I’d do it!

I used to imitate Stone Cold Steve Austin. Identical. I literally made my own waistcoat like Stone Cold, put a little ‘3:16’ I cut out of newspapers for it.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

That’s one the main reasons we live in Austin. The weather is so nice for the majority of the offseason, and it’s easy for us to get out and ride bikes and get on some trails, to walk together as a family. Sometimes I’ll go out for a trail run. We just like to do things outdoors.

Mike Tyson was probably – positively or negatively – the most recognizable face on the planet: the ‘baddest man on the planet.’ And you had our new resident baddest man on the planet, Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom fans were just gravitating to in a way they’d never done before, walking out and flipping off Mike Tyson.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

I remember, when I saw the first ‘Austin Powers’ movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

It was in Austin that I had the idea for ‘Days of Heaven.’ I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.

Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.

I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn’t get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways.

I always say I’ll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here.

We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, ‘I’m going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.’

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn’t mean – and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this – that Lance is Jesus.

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush – a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals – would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh – that was genius – and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don’t like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It’s just not for me.

Austin’s a great wrestling town. There’s a lot of WWE fans when we get there, and they’re always really loud.

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist‘s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

For ‘Way Down Low’, I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Any ’90s baby, The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin had to be your favorite wrestler.

I’ve been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that’s why I’m there – to be Austin Aries.

In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don’t. The documentary filmmaker may also be a gaffer on a feature and producer for a commercial series and web host. Everyone just does a little bit of everything, and you have to because it’s a secondary market.

Kevin Sullivan? He’s Anthony Hopkins. The Prince of Darkness. The devil himself. Against the ‘American Dream‘ Dusty Rhodes, the chubby plumber‘s son from Austin, Texas. My God, those billboards go up, and you’re going to want to go see it.

Texans don’t want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.

When I realized that you can’t necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

I love learning new things, and ‘Austin & Ally,’ honestly, was probably the best foundation for the acting side of me, just cause I learned so much.

Of all the places I’ve ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

I’ve noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know ‘Can’t Hardly Wait.’ I got the goth kids who know ‘Buffy.’ I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know ‘Scooby-Doo.’ Then I get the international people who seem to know ‘Austin Powers’ and ‘The Italian Job.’

My first night in Austin was at SXSW in 1994 when I was a senior in high school. I came here for spring break and just fell in love with Austin. It’s my home.

That boy-next-door, love interest crush has been my niche since ‘Austin & Ally.’

Austin Powers’ is a huge success. If we get half of those numbers we will be elated. I think this film is more an ‘Austin Powers’ meets ‘Shaft.’ But, ‘Undercover Brother’ is totally unique.

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don’t know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.

I like the fact that Austin’s the first place I’ve ever lived where there’s a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

Austin is great but it’s just not home for us. L.A. is definitely where we want to be.

I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.

I’ve worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised.

Austin Aries is a guy that has been the longest-reigning ‘X Division‘ champion, has proven himself all over the world before he even got to TNA, and is well-respected in the industry, so I think he’s a guy to look out for and I look forward to working with.

Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.

I don’t live as ‘Stone Cold.’ I live as Steve Austin. I was ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin back in 2003, then I rode off into the sunset.

It’s tough when you’re an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

I’m so thankful for my family and friends – they’re really supportive. Everyone I work with on ‘Austin & Ally;’ the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I’m so happy they’re in my life!

You know what I’m realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I’m doing there. I’ve heard people say, ‘I hate Pittsburgh,’ and I’m like, ‘I love Pittsburgh so much!’ I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that’s definitely a part of my personality.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Dallas Austin… where do I begin? I adore him – he is one of the kindest people I know.

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

John Austin, author of ‘Cubicle Warfare,’ has outdone himself with ‘Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction,’ a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to constructing thirty-five pocket-sized war machines, including a Clothespin Shooter, a Hanger Slingshot, a Paper-Clip Trebuchet, and Shoelace Darts.

Austin is home in a lot of ways. Both my kids were born here, and my wife‘s side of the family lives here.

I will say, I’m a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can’t enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

For me, I coin Austin as being kind of a baby brother to L.A. Because it’s pretty much the same thing; L.A. is just amplified to the nth degree.

We already do a couple numbers with chairs – chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it’s just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin.

I’ve done my part to ‘ruin’ Austin.

Social life was different for me in college. I didn’t go to as many parties as my friends did. I didn’t join a sorority because I knew I couldn’t make a long-term commitment. I was constantly traveling back and forth from Silicon Valley to Austin for internships. It was hard, but it was worth it for where I wanted to go.

In 2013, I did a TEDx talk in Austin. Until then I had sort of a following online but this was completely different – it went viral.

I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

Surrounded by a sweltering state known for its staunch conservatism, Austin is an oasis. It’s home to the University of Texas, which continuously fosters a well-educated youth culture who have been funneling their collective creative energy into building a vibrant music, film, and technology scene for decades.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo’s, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I’m finally gonna die onstage, that’s where it’s going to be!

When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.

I always love to come to Austin.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone‘s motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school’s good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

We didn’t roll credits after ‘Monday Night Raw.’ You know, it didn’t say, ‘Stone Cold Steve Austin played by Steve Austin,’ so all of a sudden people think that’s who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.

I’m Austin Seferian-Jenkins. He’s Tony Gonzalez. He’s the best tight end to ever play the game. So that’s a real strong comparison. I’m just going to do my job and leave the comparisons up to the coaches and the media.

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. ‘Austin Powers’ came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on ‘Buffy’ and ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ came out.

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van… and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn’t afford a hotel.

I went to film school at UT Austin.

Austin Pettis can make plays.

Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it; The Rock did it.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

When you see Bret Hart versus Steve Austin, it just seemed so much more real than Hulk Hogan versus Sgt. Slaughter.

Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She’s a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.

I try to make as much time as I can for R5, because I love it so much. Ultimately, that’s what’s going to be around forever in my life. Because with ‘Austin & Ally,’ our season is going to end, and then that will be it. But R5 will always be there.

What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

I didn’t care for Steve Austin because of his mouth. He was a very, very vulgar individual and anybody who is like that I can never be a fan of. So, any of his positives were overshadowed by the negatives.

When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a ’60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they’ve ever been to.

As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.

I don’t have the talent of Daniel Day-Lewis. I’m Steve Austin, so when I get to hang out and be who I am, and I live on set, it’s like a paid vacation, man.