I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn...
BILLY IDOL I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
BILLY IDOL Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
BILLY IDOL It was a natural progression with the band,
BILLY IDOL It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You'...
BILLY IDOL Face to faceAnd back to backYou see and feelMy sex attackSing itFlesh, flesh for fantasyWe wantFlesh...
BILLY IDOL I'll do anythingFor my sweet sixteen,And I'll do anythingFor little run away child.
BILLY IDOL I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL I don't play 100% punk rock music,
BILLY IDOL Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
BILLY IDOL I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
BILLY IDOL My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his busi...
BILLY IDOL It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came a...
BILLY IDOL So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think.
BILLY IDOL I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm...
BILLY IDOL But your empty eyesSeem to pass me byLeave me dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL Well there's nothing to loseAnd there's nothing to proveI'll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
BILLY IDOL We were all following in their path. I believe I'm still following in their path today.
BILLY IDOL I still put that into Devil's Playground. I believe there's a punk rock attitude to it. I don't thin...
BILLY IDOL So let's sink another drink'Cause it'll give me time to think.
BILLY IDOL In 1995, I ran into a brick wall. I had no band anymore, and the music business was getting quite so...
BILLY IDOL It's a nice day to start againIt's a nice day for a white weddingIt's a nice day to start again.
BILLY IDOL I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going...
BILLY IDOL I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow...
BILLY IDOL The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want t...
BILLY IDOL Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show you...
BILLY IDOL It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. ...
BILLY IDOL I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOL I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
BILLY IDOL I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was pr...
BILLY IDOL There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. ...
BILLY IDOL I rocked the cradle of love.
BILLY IDOL Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk r...
BILLY IDOL If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
BILLY IDOL Some of the wires were rusted in two.
DON IDOL This is a privately owned bridge by Lowe's Motor Speedway. They are responsible for maintenance and ...
DON IDOL For corrosion, you need a combination of oxygen and moisture. At this point we do not know exactly h...
DON IDOL Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i...
BILLY SUNDAY An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
BILLY CORGAN I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
BILLY BEANE I'm not a bro.
BILLY EICHNER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
BILLY EICHNER Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy...
BILLY GARDELL I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
BILLY BUSH It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru...
BILLY SHEEHAN I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
BILLY SUNDAY The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ...
BILLY GIBBONS I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL [Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobi...
BILLY SUNDAY When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv...
BILLY COLLINS Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
BILLY MARTIN I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagi...
BILLY CONNELLY America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM God has a big eraser.
BILLY ZEOLI I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTAL I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
BILLY ROSE A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
BILLY JOEL Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER You look marvelous.
BILLY CRYSTAL An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat...
BILLY JOEL There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than...
BILLY JOEL Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea...
BILLY EVANS Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attai...
BILLY CORGAN When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam...
BILLY BALDWIN No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid...
BILLY CASPER I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...
BILLY COLLINS I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
BILLY MITCHELL Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel...
BILLY CRUDUP