I love my work. We have some good times here, and they take care of me. This is my extended family h...
DORTHA CHAPMAN I almost panicked because I wasn't old enough for Social Security and I had no formal education.
DORTHA CHAPMAN That's the sad part of working with people my age. You lose one, and it's like you're losing family....
DORTHA CHAPMAN I was honored. I was shocked. I still feel there's someone more deserving than I. It was an honor.
DORTHA CHAPMAN Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when y...
CURTIS JACKSON When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
WANDA JACKSON And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert...
WANDA JACKSON If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
WANDA JACKSON I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
WANDA JACKSON I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
WANDA JACKSON I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
WANDA JACKSON I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
WANDA JACKSON But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
WANDA JACKSON There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
WANDA JACKSON I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
WANDA JACKSON On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing ...
WANDA JACKSON None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
WANDA JACKSON Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, ...
WANDA JACKSON So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
WANDA JACKSON Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
WANDA JACKSON If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
WANDA JACKSON Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
WANDA JACKSON You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
WANDA JACKSON You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
WANDA JACKSON It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
WANDA JACKSON Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
WANDA JACKSON I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
WANDA JACKSON As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
WANDA JACKSON They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vin...
WANDA JACKSON It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to p...
WANDA JACKSON I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
WANDA JACKSON I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood...
VICTORIA JACKSON Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscien...
VICTORIA JACKSON Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don'...
VICTORIA JACKSON I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to...
VICTORIA JACKSON Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserv...
VICTORIA JACKSON I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent ...
VICTORIA JACKSON But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him a...
VICTORIA JACKSON When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
VICTORIA JACKSON I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
VICTORIA JACKSON Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
VICTORIA JACKSON I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
VICTORIA JACKSON It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were ...
VICTORIA JACKSON I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
VICTORIA JACKSON The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
VICTORIA JACKSON It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
VICTORIA JACKSON I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
VICTORIA JACKSON They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
VICTORIA JACKSON That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unac...
VICTORIA JACKSON Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
VICTORIA JACKSON I think abortion is murder.
VICTORIA JACKSON Sometimes I like to vent.
VICTORIA JACKSON So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about...
VICTORIA JACKSON I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I&#...
VICTORIA JACKSON I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
VICTORIA JACKSON Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
VICTORIA JACKSON I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
JACKSON RATHBONE I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really lov...
JACKSON RATHBONE I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
JACKSON RATHBONE I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
JACKSON RATHBONE I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
JACKSON RATHBONE I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the ...
JACKSON RATHBONE I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
JACKSON RATHBONE I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
JACKSON RATHBONE In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. ...
JACKSON RATHBONE I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
JACKSON POLLOCK He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
JACKSON POLLOCK Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
JACKSON POLLOCK I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're pa...
JACKSON POLLOCK The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the ener...
JACKSON POLLOCK It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure ...
JACKSON POLLOCK My painting does not come from the easel.
JACKSON POLLOCK Every good painter paints what he is.
JACKSON POLLOCK I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a fin...
JACKSON POLLOCK On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk ...
JACKSON POLLOCK Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters wor...
JACKSON POLLOCK The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
JACKSON POLLOCK My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
JACKSON POLLOCK Men are every bit as gendered as women.
JACKSON KATZ Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention ge...
JACKSON KATZ During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Re...
JACKSON KATZ The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football p...
JACKSON KATZ A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they...
JACKSON KATZ In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happen...
JACKSON KATZ Language usage always has a political context.
JACKSON KATZ Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know ...
JACKSON KATZ If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the ...
JACKSON KATZ Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is h...
JACKSON KATZ Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
JACKSON KATZ Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is ...
JACKSON KATZ In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
JACKSON KATZ In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
JACKSON KATZ Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something t...
JACKSON KATZ If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricatur...
JACKSON KATZ How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, an...
JACKSON KATZ The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
JACKSON KATZ For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She r...
JACKSON KATZ Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood tha...
JACKSON KATZ Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse ...
JACKSON KATZ I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
JACKSON BRUNDAGE Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with m...
JACKSON BRUNDAGE I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr...
JACKSON BROWNE Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, peopl...
JACKSON BROWNE I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's h...
JACKSON BROWNE As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...
JACKSON BROWNE Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...
JACKSON BROWNE I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...
JACKSON BROWNE When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
JACKSON BROWNE That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most l...
JACKSON BROWNE We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don...
JACKSON BROWNE The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that&...
JACKSON BROWNE So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instr...
JACKSON BROWNE Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's ...
JACKSON BROWNE I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roo...
JACKSON BROWNE That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make ...
JACKSON BROWNE I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...
JACKSON BROWNE You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to y...
JACKSON BROWNE I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I bel...
JACKSON BROWNE Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize ...
JACKSON BROWNE Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't ...
JACKSON BROWNE No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'l...
JACKSON BROWNE I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will l...
JACKSON BROWNE Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it...
JACKSON BROWNE One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
JACKIE JACKSON I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
JACKIE JACKSON I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all...
JACKIE JACKSON I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
JACKIE JACKSON Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ...
JACKIE JACKSON My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
JACKIE JACKSON What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about...
PHIL JACKSON A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
STONEWALL JACKSON New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be...
JACKSON POLLOCK I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
CURTIS JACKSON Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ...
CURTIS JACKSON Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON I want to have a normal high-school experience.
PARIS JACKSON I do have a regular childhood.
PARIS JACKSON A lot of people don't like me.
PARIS JACKSON I listen to older music like AC/DC.
PARIS JACKSON My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't...
PARIS JACKSON I want to be my own person.
PARIS JACKSON I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face ...
PARIS JACKSON I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
PARIS JACKSON A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, &#...
PARIS JACKSON There are a lot of bad people out there.
PARIS JACKSON I want to help people. That's it.
PARIS JACKSON You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another ch...
PARIS JACKSON I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
PARIS JACKSON I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his foo...
PARIS JACKSON Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really wor...
PARIS JACKSON Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say...
PARIS JACKSON We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and...
JANET JACKSON I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here...
LATOYA JACKSON I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be t...
LATOYA JACKSON Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
LATOYA JACKSON I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager an...
LATOYA JACKSON Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
LATOYA JACKSON J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me bel...
LATOYA JACKSON I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LATOYA JACKSON It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt...
LATOYA JACKSON When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs ...
LATOYA JACKSON Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or...
LATOYA JACKSON I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
LATOYA JACKSON This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and tot...
LATOYA JACKSON I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
LATOYA JACKSON I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be othe...
LATOYA JACKSON I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
LATOYA JACKSON This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I...
LATOYA JACKSON When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
LATOYA JACKSON I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel...
LATOYA JACKSON The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all ch...
LATOYA JACKSON I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will...
LATOYA JACKSON