Favorite Quotes

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.