Kevin Bacon

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
Kevin Bacon

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
Kevin Bacon

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
Kevin Bacon

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
Kevin Bacon

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Kevin Bacon

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
Kevin Bacon

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
Kevin Bacon

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
Kevin Bacon

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
Kevin Bacon

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
Kevin Bacon

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
Kevin Bacon

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
Kevin Bacon

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
Kevin Bacon

I have a natural swagger.
Kevin Bacon

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.
Kevin Bacon

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Kevin Bacon

I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
Kevin Bacon

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
Kevin Bacon

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
Kevin Bacon

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
Kevin Bacon

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
Kevin Bacon

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
Kevin Bacon

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
Kevin Bacon

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
Kevin Bacon

L.A. kind of scares me.
Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
Kevin Bacon

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
Kevin Bacon

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.
Kevin Bacon

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
Kevin Bacon

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
Kevin Bacon

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
Kevin Bacon

Huey Lewis (& The News)

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
Huey Lewis

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.
Huey Lewis

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
Huey Lewis

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
Huey Lewis

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.
Huey Lewis

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
Huey Lewis

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.
Huey Lewis

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
Huey Lewis

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.
Huey Lewis

Geraldo Rivera

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Geraldo Rivera

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.
Geraldo Rivera

I am enduring. You can disagree with me.
Geraldo Rivera

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.
Geraldo Rivera

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
Geraldo Rivera

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
Geraldo Rivera

I'd like to give divorce a good name.
Geraldo Rivera

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.
Geraldo Rivera

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
Geraldo Rivera

I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.
Geraldo Rivera

I'm tired of getting made fun of.
Geraldo Rivera

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.
Geraldo Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.
Geraldo Rivera

Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.
Geraldo Rivera

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
Geraldo Rivera

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.
Geraldo Rivera

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?
Geraldo Rivera

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem.
Geraldo Rivera

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.
Geraldo Rivera

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.
Geraldo Rivera

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.
Geraldo Rivera

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.
Geraldo Rivera

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
Geraldo Rivera

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
Geraldo Rivera

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.
Geraldo Rivera

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know.
Geraldo Rivera

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.
Geraldo Rivera

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
Geraldo Rivera

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.
Geraldo Rivera

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.
Geraldo Rivera

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.
Geraldo Rivera

Tom Cruise

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."
Tom Cruise

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.
Tom Cruise

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.
Tom Cruise

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
Tom Cruise

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.
Tom Cruise

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
Tom Cruise

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
Tom Cruise

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
Tom Cruise

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
Tom Cruise

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Tom Cruise

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
Tom Cruise

I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
Tom Cruise

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
Tom Cruise

I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them.
Tom Cruise

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
Tom Cruise

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.
Tom Cruise

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
Tom Cruise

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
Tom Cruise

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
Tom Cruise

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
Tom Cruise

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Tom Cruise

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
Tom Cruise

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
Tom Cruise

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
Tom Cruise

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
Tom Cruise

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
Tom Cruise

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.
Tom Cruise

Tony Curtis

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
Tony Curtis

But my longevity is due to my good timing.
Tony Curtis

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
Tony Curtis

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
Tony Curtis

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
Tony Curtis

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.
Tony Curtis

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
Tony Curtis

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
Tony Curtis

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
Tony Curtis

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.
Tony Curtis

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.
Tony Curtis

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
Tony Curtis

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
Tony Curtis

I look at everything in an artistic way.
Tony Curtis

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
Tony Curtis

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
Tony Curtis

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
Tony Curtis

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.
Tony Curtis

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
Tony Curtis

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
Tony Curtis

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
Tony Curtis

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
Tony Curtis

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
Tony Curtis

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
Tony Curtis

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
Tony Curtis

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
Tony Curtis

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
Tony Curtis

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Tony Curtis

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
Tony Curtis

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
Tony Curtis

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
Tony Curtis

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
Tony Curtis

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
Tony Curtis

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
Tony Curtis

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
Tony Curtis

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
Tony Curtis

Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.
Tony Curtis

Debbie Harry (Blondie)

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
Debbie Harry

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
Debbie Harry

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
Debbie Harry

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
Debbie Harry

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
Debbie Harry

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
Debbie Harry

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
Debbie Harry

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
Debbie Harry

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

I feel like I have to have a voice.
Debbie Harry

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
Debbie Harry

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
Debbie Harry

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
Debbie Harry

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
Debbie Harry

I really, really like writing songs.
Debbie Harry

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
Debbie Harry

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
Debbie Harry