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You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.