Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had...

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it’s funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something’s funny and you’re the subject of it, sometimes it’s more offensive. If...

Someone said I wasn’t attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn’t finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn’t get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we...

I’m an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I’d get two bites of the cherry – you would do things that people will remember forever like ‘The Brothers’ which...

I’ve never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

We make music for a living. Like I’ve always said, if you like what you’re doing, you’re halfway there; if someone else likes it, that’s even better. If they don’t like it, at least you...

I said, other people can write songs, let’s see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men’s prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the ‘American Idol’ process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, ‘OK, here are all...

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’

When I came out, I said, ‘I’m going to be a proud gay artist.’ I’m not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she’s a goddess!

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, ‘What the hell!’ and did something crazy.

With Ciel and with Rex, I said ‘no epidural.’ I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and...

My mother, when I told her I was going into the jewelry business said, ‘Kenneth, don’t tell anyone.’

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might...

Well, as you’ve said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it’s an...

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can’t do it. I’m happy to cover up now.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, ‘You’re dumb!’ over and over. That’s not what Broadway’s about.

I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn’t think I’d last too long. Nothing physical – they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a...

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren’t involved that they don’t have to go into spasms too.

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I’m still vulgar. I’m vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me...

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, ‘Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.’ That made...

There’s something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn’t mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving...

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

I won’t name any names, but I’ve done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, ‘I have no idea where we’re going.’

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it’s why I’ve always said you should never try to...

There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. – some of whom have dubbed...

I just think more precaution should be taken when I’m inside the pocket. Look at all the replays – I’m on the ground every time. It’s unfortunate for myself, it’s unfortunate for my team and...

I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I’ve said many times that I think they’re part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can...

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he...

My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it’s a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn’t write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You’d be...

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never...

You want to know what makes me tick, I’ll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called ‘The Hawk’s Nest.’ Nobody entered that...

I was like any new bride, who said, ‘I’m going to cook for my man.’ In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I...

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn’t get it then. Nothing’s changed.

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to find these!’ I destroyed them.

But you know, I’m not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person’s game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the...