“As a young man, you need a kick in the ass sometimes. Thank God, I really took that to heart.”

— Jordi Vilasuso

JORDI VILASUSO (REY, Y&R) REFLECTS ON THE GIG THAT LAUNCHED HIS SOAP CAREER https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/jordi-vilasuso-rey-yr-reflects-on-the-gig-that-launched-his-soap-career/ (August 4, 2020)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 30, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "As a young man, you need a kick in the ass sometimes. Thank God, I really took that to heart." by Jordi Vilasuso?

Jordi Vilasuso1

American actor 1981

Related quotes

“You sometimes wake up from a dream and think, "Thank God, I didn't really do that!" Reconstructing a period of blackout you think, "My God, did I really do that?" The line between saying and thinking is blurred. Did you say it or just think it?”

William S. Burroughs book Junkie

Junkie (1953)

“Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.”

Dave Attell (1965) comedian

Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell

“Suppose an ass had kicked me, would you have had me bring an action against him?”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Diogenes Laertius

“What better emblem for our nation, after all, than a level playing field, shaped like an octagon, where people of diverse cultural ass-kicking traditions can meet as equals and immediately start kicking ass.”

John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise

June 11, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

“We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

I would have fired BP chief by now, Obama says http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37566848/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/ (June 8, 2010) <br class="br">2010, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)

“They should call the good man an ass! They should call the bad ass a man! ]]Ironically]] … to speak thus of you, so smart, friend of the old and the young, of the stream and the butterfly, of the sun and the dog, of the flower and the moon, patient and thoughtful, melancholic and lovable, the Marcus Aurelius of the fields…”

Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet

Source: ‪Platero and I‬ (1917), Ch. 55: "Donkeyography" as translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas (1985), p. 66; also translated as "Assography" in translation by Eloïse Roach.

“I don't care how good they are. Unless they get a kick in the ass every six weeks, they'll slack off.”

Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations

King's comment on maintaining a strict style of leadership, in particular constantly holding drills and inspections among his sailors and officers, in 1940 when he was a 2-star rear admiral. As quoted in American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America To Victory In World War II (2016), p. 72.
1940s