Jackie Robinson

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson

Above anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie Robinson

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Jackie Robinson

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Jackie Robinson

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Jackie Robinson

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
Jackie Robinson

Mohandas Gandhi

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mohandas Gandhi

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mohandas Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mohandas Gandhi

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mohandas Gandhi

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mohandas Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.
Mohandas Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mohandas Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mohandas Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi

Debbie Gibson

I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things.
Debbie Gibson

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
Debbie Gibson

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.
Debbie Gibson

I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
Debbie Gibson

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.
Debbie Gibson

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.
Debbie Gibson

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
Debbie Gibson

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
Debbie Gibson

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.
Debbie Gibson

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.
Debbie Gibson

Ellen DeGeneres

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
Ellen DeGeneres

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
Ellen DeGeneres

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres

Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and then run away.
Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
Ellen DeGeneres

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen DeGeneres

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
Ellen DeGeneres

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

Eddie Van Halen

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
Eddie Van Halen

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
Eddie Van Halen

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
Eddie Van Halen

Al Capone

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
Al Capone

I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Al Capone

I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
Al Capone

Now I know why tigers eat their young.
Al Capone

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Al Capone

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Al Capone

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

Mary Lou Retton

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.
Mary Lou Retton

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Mary Lou Retton

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
Mary Lou Retton

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.
Mary Lou Retton

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
Mary Lou Retton

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
Mary Lou Retton

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
Mary Lou Retton

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
Mary Lou Retton

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
Mary Lou Retton

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Mary Lou Retton

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
Mary Lou Retton

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
Mary Lou Retton

In L.A., we had a game room with a new sensation called Pac-Man.
Mary Lou Retton

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
Mary Lou Retton

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.
Mary Lou Retton

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
Mary Lou Retton

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
Mary Lou Retton

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
Mary Lou Retton

The endorsement game has been very good to me.
Mary Lou Retton

Humphrey Bogart

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart

All you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Humphrey Bogart

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart

I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.
Humphrey Bogart

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
Humphrey Bogart

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
Humphrey Bogart

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
Humphrey Bogart

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Humphrey Bogart

Bill Bixby

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.
Bill Bixby

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
Bill Bixby

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
Bill Bixby

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
Bill Bixby

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Bill Bixby

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
Bill Bixby

Geena Davis

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Geena Davis

Archers are pretty focused.
Geena Davis

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
Geena Davis

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
Geena Davis

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
Geena Davis

I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
Geena Davis

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
Geena Davis

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
Geena Davis

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.
Geena Davis

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
Geena Davis

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
Geena Davis

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.
Geena Davis

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
Geena Davis

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.
Geena Davis

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
Geena Davis

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
Geena Davis

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.
Geena Davis

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
Geena Davis

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
Geena Davis

Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Audrey Hepburn

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
Audrey Hepburn

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
Audrey Hepburn

George Burns

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
George Burns

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
George Burns

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
George Burns

How can I die? I'm booked.
George Burns

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
George Burns

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George Burns

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
George Burns

Jean Stapleton

But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people.
Jean Stapleton

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
Jean Stapleton

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.
Jean Stapleton

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

James Earl Jones

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
James Earl Jones

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
James Earl Jones

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
James Earl Jones

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
James Earl Jones

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
James Earl Jones

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
James Earl Jones

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
James Earl Jones

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
James Earl Jones

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
James Earl Jones

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
James Earl Jones

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
James Earl Jones

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
James Earl Jones

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
James Earl Jones

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
James Earl Jones

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
James Earl Jones

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
James Earl Jones

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones

Ronnie Milsap

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.
Ronnie Milsap

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.
Ronnie Milsap

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
Ronnie Milsap

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
Ronnie Milsap

Chad Lowe

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.
Chad Lowe

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
Chad Lowe

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
Chad Lowe

I think each role has had different challenges.
Chad Lowe

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.
Chad Lowe

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.
Chad Lowe

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.
Chad Lowe

Faye Dunaway

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
Faye Dunaway

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
Faye Dunaway

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
Faye Dunaway

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
Faye Dunaway

I'm kind of a recluse.
Faye Dunaway

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
Faye Dunaway

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
Faye Dunaway

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
Faye Dunaway

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
Faye Dunaway

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
Faye Dunaway

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
Faye Dunaway

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
Faye Dunaway

When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
Faye Dunaway

Years are not important, my dear.
Faye Dunaway

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
Faye Dunaway

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
Faye Dunaway

Patrick Dempsey

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
Patrick Dempsey

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Patrick Dempsey

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
Patrick Dempsey

Howard Stern

And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.
Howard Stern

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.
Howard Stern

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
Howard Stern

I don't talk about my salary.
Howard Stern

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.
Howard Stern

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
Howard Stern

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
Howard Stern

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.
Howard Stern

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Howard Stern

I will never feel successful.
Howard Stern

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.
Howard Stern

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern

It's no treat being in bed with me.
Howard Stern

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
Howard Stern

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.
Howard Stern

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.
Howard Stern

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Howard Stern

There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.
Howard Stern

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.
Howard Stern

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.
Howard Stern

James Brown

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
James Brown

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.
James Brown

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
James Brown

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
James Brown

I just thank God for all of the blessings.
James Brown

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
James Brown

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
James Brown

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
James Brown

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
James Brown

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
James Brown

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
James Brown

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
James Brown

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
James Brown

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.
James Brown

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
James Brown

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
James Brown

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
James Brown

I've been knocked down a lot of times.
James Brown

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
James Brown

Pat Benatar

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
Pat Benatar

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Pat Benatar

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
Pat Benatar

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
Pat Benatar

Crystal Gayle

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.
Crystal Gayle

But these days, it's hard to make it just on a beautiful voice.
Crystal Gayle

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
Crystal Gayle

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.
Crystal Gayle

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.
Crystal Gayle

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.
Crystal Gayle

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.
Crystal Gayle

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.
Crystal Gayle

There was a time when country never used to do videos.
Crystal Gayle

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.
Crystal Gayle

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.
Crystal Gayle

You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.
Crystal Gayle

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.
Crystal Gayle

Christie Brinkley

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.
Christie Brinkley

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.
Christie Brinkley

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.
Christie Brinkley

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
Christie Brinkley

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Christie Brinkley

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.
Christie Brinkley

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
Christie Brinkley

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.
Christie Brinkley

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
Christie Brinkley

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.
Christie Brinkley

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
Christie Brinkley

Billy Joel

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
Billy Joel

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
Billy Joel

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
Billy Joel

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
Billy Joel

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
Billy Joel

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
Billy Joel

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
Billy Joel

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Billy Joel

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
Billy Joel

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
Billy Joel

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
Billy Joel

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
Billy Joel

Steve Martin

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Steve Martin

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve Martin

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Steve Martin

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.
Steve Martin

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Steve Martin

Well, excuuuuuse me!
Steve Martin

Karen Carpenter

I enjoy money.
Karen Carpenter

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
Karen Carpenter

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.
Karen Carpenter

It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
Karen Carpenter

Not enough people in this world are happy.
Karen Carpenter

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
Karen Carpenter

Linda Ronstadt

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
Linda Ronstadt

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
Linda Ronstadt

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
Linda Ronstadt

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
Linda Ronstadt

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
Linda Ronstadt

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
Linda Ronstadt

Mel Gibson

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
Mel Gibson

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Mel Gibson

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
Mel Gibson

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.
Mel Gibson

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
Mel Gibson

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
Mel Gibson

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
Mel Gibson

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.
Mel Gibson

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Mel Gibson

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.
Mel Gibson

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.
Mel Gibson

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
Mel Gibson

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
Mel Gibson

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
Mel Gibson

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
Mel Gibson

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
Mel Gibson

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
Mel Gibson

Chris Farley

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
Chris Farley

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
Chris Farley

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
Chris Farley

Marcia Cross

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.
Marcia Cross

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
Marcia Cross

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.
Marcia Cross

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.
Marcia Cross

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.
Marcia Cross