Gene Wilder

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Gene Wilder

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
Gene Wilder

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.
Gene Wilder

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
Gene Wilder

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Gene Wilder

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
Gene Wilder

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
Gene Wilder

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
Gene Wilder

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
Gene Wilder

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Gene Wilder

I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
Gene Wilder

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder

Mel Brooks

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks

Richard Dreyfuss

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
Richard Dreyfuss

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
Richard Dreyfuss

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Richard Dreyfuss

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.
Richard Dreyfuss

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.
Richard Dreyfuss

Bo Derek

"10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Michael Landon

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.
Michael Landon

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Michael Landon

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
Michael Landon

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
Michael Landon

I believe that there is God in all of us.
Michael Landon

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
Michael Landon

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.
Michael Landon

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.
Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.
Michael Landon

I think all of us create our own miracles.
Michael Landon

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.
Michael Landon

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.
Michael Landon

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.
Michael Landon

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.
Michael Landon

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!
Michael Landon

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
Michael Landon

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.
Michael Landon

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
Michael Landon

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
Michael Landon

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.
Michael Landon

Steven Spielberg

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
Steven Spielberg

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
Steven Spielberg

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Steven Spielberg

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
Steven Spielberg

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Steven Spielberg

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
Steven Spielberg

I'm not really interested in making money.
Steven Spielberg

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Steven Spielberg

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Steven Spielberg

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg

Linda Blair (The Exorcist)

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
Linda Blair

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.
Linda Blair

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
Linda Blair

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
Linda Blair

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
Linda Blair

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
Linda Blair

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.
Linda Blair

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
Linda Blair

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.
Linda Blair

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for "The Exorcist" interview.
Linda Blair

"Pea soup for the tortured soul? (That's what SFX people used when actress Linda Blair, possessed by the devil, vomited forth green hideousness.)" ~People Magazine

Total Gross: $357.6 million

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
Marlon Brando

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
Marlon Brando

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
Marlon Brando

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
Marlon Brando

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
Marlon Brando

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Marlon Brando

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

Olivia Newton-John

Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.
Olivia Newton-John

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
Olivia Newton-John

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
Olivia Newton-John

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
Olivia Newton-John

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
Olivia Newton-John

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-John

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
Olivia Newton-John

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John

The only weights I lift are my dogs.
Olivia Newton-John

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John

We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
Olivia Newton-John

Jim Croce

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.
Jim Croce

http://www.top-10.us/croce.htm

Christopher Reeve

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
Christopher Reeve

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
Christopher Reeve

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
Christopher Reeve

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Christopher Reeve

You've got to give more than you take.
Christopher Reeve

Jimi Hendrix

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Jimi Hendrix

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Jimi Hendrix

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
Jimi Hendrix

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
Jimi Hendrix

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
Jimi Hendrix

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

Harrison Ford

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Harrison Ford

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Harrison Ford

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
Harrison Ford

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
Harrison Ford

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
Harrison Ford

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
Harrison Ford

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
Harrison Ford

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
Harrison Ford

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
Harrison Ford

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
Harrison Ford

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Harrison Ford

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
Harrison Ford

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
Harrison Ford

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Harrison Ford

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
Harrison Ford

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Harrison Ford

I've never wanted to be the boss.
Harrison Ford

Carrie Fisher

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Carrie Fisher

Drugs made me feel more normal.
Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
Carrie Fisher

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
Carrie Fisher

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
Carrie Fisher

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
Carrie Fisher

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
Carrie Fisher

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
Carrie Fisher

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.
Carrie Fisher

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
Carrie Fisher

Leia follows me like a vague smell.
Carrie Fisher

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
Carrie Fisher

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

The manic end of is a lot of fun.
Carrie Fisher

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Carrie Fisher



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Mark Hamill

Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
Mark Hamill

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
Mark Hamill

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.
Mark Hamill

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.
Mark Hamill

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.
Mark Hamill




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Joan Collins

http://www.magforum.com/mens/joan_collins.htm


Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Joan Collins

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
Joan Collins

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
Joan Collins

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
Joan Collins

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
Joan Collins

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
Joan Collins

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
Joan Collins

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
Joan Collins

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.
Joan Collins

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
Joan Collins

I don't believe in dieting.
Joan Collins

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
Joan Collins

I have a lot of male friends.
Joan Collins

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
Joan Collins

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
Joan Collins

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
Joan Collins

I think dieting is bad for you.
Joan Collins

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
Joan Collins

Dorothy Hamill

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
Dorothy Hamill

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
Dorothy Hamill

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.
Dorothy Hamill

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
Dorothy Hamill

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
Dorothy Hamill

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
Dorothy Hamill

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
Dorothy Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Dorothy Hamill

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
Dorothy Hamill

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
Dorothy Hamill

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Dorothy Hamill

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
Dorothy Hamill

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
Dorothy Hamill

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
Dorothy Hamill

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Dorothy Hamill

They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now.
Dorothy Hamill

Angela Davis

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
Angela Davis

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
Angela Davis

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
Angela Davis

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
Angela Davis

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Angela Davis

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
Angela Davis

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
Angela Davis

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.
Angela Davis

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
Angela Davis

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
Angela Davis

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
Angela Davis

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
Angela Davis

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela Davis

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Angela Davis

Loni Anderson

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
Loni Anderson

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
Loni Anderson

I am the odd man out in the family.
Loni Anderson

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.
Loni Anderson

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
Loni Anderson

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Loni Anderson

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
Loni Anderson

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
Loni Anderson

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
Loni Anderson

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Loni Anderson

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Loni Anderson

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
Loni Anderson

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Loni Anderson

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.
Loni Anderson

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
Loni Anderson

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Loni Anderson

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
Loni Anderson

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
Loni Anderson

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
Loni Anderson

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
Loni Anderson

Patrick Swayze

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.
Patrick Swayze

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
Patrick Swayze

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
Patrick Swayze

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
Patrick Swayze

Sharon Tate

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
Sharon Tate

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
Sharon Tate

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
Sharon Tate

I guess I'm too outspoken.
Sharon Tate

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.
Sharon Tate

My whole life has been decided by fate.
Sharon Tate

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
Sharon Tate

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.
Sharon Tate

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
Sharon Tate

Wilt Chamberlain

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
Wilt Chamberlain

But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
Wilt Chamberlain

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

I believe that good things come to those who work.
Wilt Chamberlain

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
Wilt Chamberlain

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
Wilt Chamberlain

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
Wilt Chamberlain

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
Wilt Chamberlain

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
Wilt Chamberlain

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain

Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
Wilt Chamberlain

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
Wilt Chamberlain

They were willing to do anything to stop me.
Wilt Chamberlain

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
Wilt Chamberlain

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
Wilt Chamberlain

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
Wilt Chamberlain

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Wilt Chamberlain

Frank Zappa

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Frank Zappa

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

Elizabeth Taylor

Big girls need big diamonds.
Elizabeth Taylor

Mary Tyler Moore

I adore Mary Tyler Moore - ever since I was a lad back in the 60's. She is the quinticential beautiful, strong, and caring heroine and comedienne.

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Shaun Cassidy

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
Shaun Cassidy

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
Shaun Cassidy

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
Shaun Cassidy

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
Shaun Cassidy

The propensity to do good things is a choice.
Shaun Cassidy

John Denver

"Dutch-boy haircut? Check. Two-tone denim sport coat? Check. Flowered shirt, medallion, bell-bottom cords and fur-'n'-leather guitar case? Chieckity check-check-check. Citified country boy Denver was ready to (soft) rock." ~People Magazine

Cher

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher