Entertainer Quotations | Page 3

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

During the summer of '65, I became fairly addicted to Password. I enjoyed his work as a host and thought that this wasn't a bad way to make a living.

I know the world is hungry for good ministry.

In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

I liked working in Germany and Austria. The money was horrible but what was good about it was, I was with my wife. We lived out there for nine months.

In the end the French chef that nearly killed me became one of my best friends, and she could never quite understand how that happened.

I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain.

If you could have frozen them and put them together, time lapse where Dynamite was at his peak and with Chris now, they'd be an awesome team.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

I try to instill in people the idea that they've all got individual personalities, and they should do what they want to their homes.

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.

It's really hard to do justice to your family and I want to give 100 percent to my marriage and family. So being an anchor would allow me to do that.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

In this case, there is plenty of blame to go around. And the people who pay the price are the ones who can least afford to pay it.

I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.

I love the people I work with. I don't know how long it will be or how long I will be blessed to be wanted there, but I enjoy what I'm doing now.

Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

I don't think I should have made it to Hollywood. I wasn't ready for the next level yet, but I wouldn't have known that until I did it.

How could this happen? How could the city, the state and the federal governments be some unprepared? it wasn't like there weren't warnings.

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.

They wanted it to happen. And in every major challenge that came along, they attended that theater not to see him fail, or even possibly fail.

I love Nashville. I was down there recently, and I was talking to all the cab drivers, they're all songwriters, everybody's a songwriter down there.

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.

The Bushes in office now have asked that everybody respect the privacy of their twin girls. We're laying back because they asked for that.

The evening news was the first reality TV show, I would even say, and this is something people need to look at when they digest television.

The first time I met Michael, we saw each other on a TV show.

It started as just a little cable show.

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

It's not perfect by any means, but I do think I wrote a pretty good argument for it being better than shoving your hand over the fire.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

There's been a lot of guys who've come to the WWF, and they really didn't have the roots, feelings for the company, and the people they worked with.

It's a thrill, and I really look at is as confirmation that we're a quartet. It's like a piece of chamber music, with all four of us playing.

It was a very risky venture because at first, nobody really was comfortable with it. The publicists were very wary of putting their stars on the show.

The most difficult part of the trip was the logistics - planes, trains, a rental car, taxis, buses, subways, lots of walking, we did it all.

It's full-time work, wrestling, appearances and stuff. I couldn't put my full effort into a newspaper column and I'd probably do a lousy job at it.

It's good to do something for Americans for once.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.

If everyone who graduated from high school was required to do some form public service, you would have enough people in the military.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

I do the radio from home 5 days a week.

I don't think about how I wear my hair. I get out of the shower, put on some gel and it dries. I got blessed with good hair from my parents.

For some reason, I was accepted by the rock folk. Maybe they understood that they and I were on the same side of the Richard Nixon question.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.