‘School of Rock’ was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I’d go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, ‘Aren’t you just selling people things they don’t want?’

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I’ve been asked for autographs while I’ve been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

I’ve had some marvelous parts, but I’m also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat – I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I’m completely comfortable with and open about.

And it wasn’t until ’84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

None of the editors I’ve worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They’ve never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

It’s very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything – none of which I mind – but people don’t really care that much.

I’m not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

Don’t give advice unless you’re asked.

If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.

When there’s an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that’s what makes you lean forward.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Somebody asked me, ‘Why do people like vampires so much?’ This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, ‘Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.’

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, ‘I don’t have anything. I’m not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don’t think so.’

If they asked me, I would do anything for the ‘South Park’ guys.

I’ve worked with very few directors who’ve asked of me what I asked of myself.

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

I’ve actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me.

Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to.

Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They’re paid very, very minimal wages – probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It’s kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses – it’s appalling.

I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other woman’s before—why I saw her,...

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, ‘He kept the paper straight.’ And I think about that a lot.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

One day, though, I was asked if I’d like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

I don’t give my advice unless it’s asked for.

Rather than be asked to abandon one’s own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He’s the only person I’ve ever asked for an autograph.

My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something. I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.

I’ll tell you where the injustice is. It’s with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?

I haven’t been approached to do a ‘Doctor Who’ movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

I wasn’t into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I’d go to all the rehearsals, and then I’d pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.