Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Erica Jong

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Erica Jong

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Erica Jong

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Erica Jong

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

Eric Clapton

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

Eric Clapton

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

Eoin Colfer

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

George Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Gary Oldman

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Gabriel Iglesias

I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'

Gabriel Iglesias

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

Gabriel Iglesias

I'm a big boy, but I can get jiggy with it. Ladies, I will go to dance clubs, and I will tear it up hardcore for a good 30 seconds.

Franz Liszt

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Fred Armisen

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

Fred Allen

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

Fred Allen

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Fred Allen

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

Fred Allen

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred Allen

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

Fred Allen

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

Fred Allen

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Fred Allen

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Fred Allen

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Fred Allen

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Fred Allen

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

Fred Allen

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

Fred Allen

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Fred Allen

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Fred Allen

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.