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JACKIE ROBINSON Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
SIDNEY POITIER Look at the names in the Jackie Robinson Wing, ... Steve Young, Dorothy Hamill. The Jackie Robinson ...
CALVIN MURPHY It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right...
ANDRE HOLLAND So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do...
STACIA KANE When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
ERNIE HARWELL Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
WILLIE MAYS After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is
REGGIE JACKSON To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessar...
SIDNEY POITIER Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, h...
WILLIE MAYS I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren...
PEE WEE REESE [Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turne...
CHEECH MARIN Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, ...
CURTIS GRANDERSON Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a te...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean ...
REGGIE JACKSON I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, ...
CHEECH MARIN Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE He told me he was hopeful of getting Negro players into the game. He was very sure about it. He was ...
HOWDY GROSKLOSS Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was ex...
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR You get hooked just watching it. It's fun to watch and people of all ages who can do it. I've yet to...
DAVE HANSON The story of Jackie Robinson is bigger than baseball. Integration at that time was a radical idea; s...
BILL SCHUMANN I know Hank [ Aaron ] and Jackie [ Robinson ] took a good deal of crap, but I guarantee it wasn't fo...
JOHN ROCKER Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see th...
TARA REID If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followe...
CHARLIE SIFFORD Giving your life is the ultimate sacrifice, and if they were able to do it for Jackie Robinson, they...
FERNANDO MATEO Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in be...
LOU BROCK The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what ...
JIM BROWN There's definitely a growing gap between African-American culture and baseball. The doors Jackie Rob...
DAVID OGDEN I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h...
MAURY WILLS If they did it with Jackie Robinson already, they should do that for the Latin American players. And...
MATTY ALOU you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robins...
ATO ESSANDOH To watch what Paul has done in this series ... wow. It's been fun to watch. We like our chances with...
SCOTT PODSEDNIK How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?
MAUREEN O'HARA Everybody has heard about Jackie Robinson, but you don't hear as much about the great ones who came ...
BILLY HATCHER I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did ...
DAVID A. ADLER It felt pretty good. I had a lot fun playing with Jackie and being in our hometown.
SARA ANTOLICK Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking...
JACKIE EVANCHO Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
ANONYMOUS It's fun to watch those guys. They get fired up and it just snowballs. You just want to keep that mo...
BRAD FAIRCHILD Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Being the grand marshal of the Jackie Robinson West Little League Season Opening Parade is a real ho...
DOROTHY GATERS I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the st...
MAURICE ASHLEY [Talking for an hour with Clem Labine, it was obvious how much he loves baseball and its players, bo...
BILLY COX It happened so quickly it was over before you knew it. I'm not a Bush supporter, but it was fun to w...
BRUCE FRANK Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.
JEFF MORROW They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in yo...
KIP ANDERSON All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinso...
DAVE WINFIELD My kids thought they were on Mars. We couldn't get a word in edgewise, but it was fun to just sit an...
ANDRE AGASSI No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
OGDEN NASH Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson in 1945 and he went to the minor leagues and then to Montreal i...
LARRY HARTZELL This was a fun match to play and watch,
GEORGE BRIGGS I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to th...
MAURICE ASHLEY Me and my clique got class, school you a quick minute, and we aint never finished till ignorance is ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER To get something done, you must first try to get it done.
EMILE JOBITY Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this ...
TUPAC SHAKUR Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.
DR. SUESS 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to wa...
MARA WILSON It's inexplicable. But it's been really fun to watch.
JAY BILAS This is unconstitutional and done with an ill political motive...we don't accept it. We reject such ...
ABDUL JALIL Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day y...
JASPER FFORDE Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in...
LOU BROCK Richmond is a great track, and it will be a fun race to watch this week,
CARL EDWARDS McEnroe is what he is. You never know what you're going to get, except you know it's going to be fun...
LENNY SIMPSON Jackie Robinson was honored in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. What a ceremony. It doubled the number of...
ARGUS HAMILTON My team is fun to watch. This team is fun to coach. It's the most fun I've had in 14 years.
JOE PISTONE If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it beco...
ZOE SUGG If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
BOB HOPE To this day, I don't know how he withstood the things he did without lashing back. I've been through...
HANK AARON Both Dixie and I told Mr. Rickey we wanted to be traded, ... After just one road trip, I saw the qua...
BOBBY BRAGAN The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a differ...
ERIN WASSON We were inspired by the success of our inaugural charity auction, and overwhelmed by the many positi...
DELLA BRITTON BAEZA Notice: The only person getting his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
UNKNOWN I've been working on a project for a while, but this 'American Idol' experience gave me a reason to ...
ANWAR ROBINSON I've been working on a project for a while, but this 'American Idol' experience gave me a reason to ...
ANWAR ROBINSON It's a fun process to watch because we know how the final chapter ends. It's fun to watch people go ...
BRIAN COLLINS To me porn is a body-contact sport; it's nice to see, but more fun to play ... I could watch, but pr...
QUENTIN BRAUN If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
BOB HOPE Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happe...
INDIA KNIGHT Every time Austin is on the court, it will be a show. It's fun to watch him get on a roll.
BEN COCHRAN Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to kn...
DR. SEUSS When [Harris] gets hot, you wish you could get back on offense quickly so he can shoot it again. Whe...
LANCE HUBER I've done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been ...
BILLY CAMPBELL Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me.
MICHELLE YEOH I think it is ill-advised and illogical. This to me is decidedly unhelpful.
GREGG LIEN All in all, it's been a lot of fun, but you wish you could've done better.
ERIN HORN As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watchi...
CHEECH MARIN Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
GEORGE HERBERT [Robinson] is a great threat on the bases. I get a lot of fastballs, which has helped me a lot.
JACK RYE How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch.
DANIEL CORMIER The kids had a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun to watch them.
JACKIE RODRIGUES Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he ...
CHELSEA HANDLER It's been tough, but it has been fun, ... This business has its ups and downs, just like any other o...
TERRY BRADSHAW

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JACKIE ROBINSON Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit w...
JACKIE ROBINSON Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I care...
JACKIE ROBINSON I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough mon...
JACKIE ROBINSON A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Ame...
JACKIE ROBINSON I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or a...
JACKIE ROBINSON Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the d...
JACKIE ROBINSON The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remem...
JACKIE ROBINSON My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, ...
JACKIE ROBINSON I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been mo...
JACKIE ROBINSON A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negro...
JACKIE ROBINSON This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them...
JACKIE ROBINSON I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, i...
JACKIE ROBINSON When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over,...
JACKIE ROBINSON I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a hum...
JACKIE ROBINSON I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human be...
JACKIE ROBINSON When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black ...
JACKIE ROBINSON I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the...
JACKIE ROBINSON The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee R...
JACKIE ROBINSON I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that ...
JACKIE ROBINSON I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my bir...
JACKIE ROBINSON Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just w...
JACKIE ROBINSON The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those J...
JACKIE ROBINSON I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. The...
JACKIE ROBINSON [Knight Ridder Newspapers Helen Keller believed in having a] courageous dignity in the presence of f...
JACKIE ROBINSON [Fortunately for Kent, this tempest in a Petri dish has since been squashed, but it was Bradley’s ...
JACKIE ROBINSON I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its i...
JACKIE ROBINSON I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another i...
JACKIE ROBINSON There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSON Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watch...
JACKIE ROBINSON Wait til next year.
JACKIE ROBINSON We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.
JACKIE ROBINSON People that work can get in and out in record time for the luncheon as we have an express line for t...
JACKIE ROBINSON Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSON It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's...
JACKIE ROBINSON The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSON How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when ...
JACKIE ROBINSON A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it ha...
JACKIE ROBINSON It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t...
JACKIE ROBINSON In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
JACKIE ROBINSON Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
JACKIE COLLINS Coffee is a language in itself.
JACKIE CHAN I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims ...
JACKIE WALORSKI It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your gov...
JACKIE WALORSKI America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The word...
JACKIE WALORSKI We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world r...
JACKIE TABICK This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately th...
JACKIE TABICK One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and c...
JACKIE TABICK Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our h...
JACKIE TABICK In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
JACKIE STEWART I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear...
JACKIE STEWART When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the tox...
JACKIE STEWART We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in tha...
JACKIE STEWART From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
JACKIE STEWART I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same numbe...
JACKIE STEWART The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyre...
JACKIE STEWART Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
JACKIE STEWART There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, b...
JACKIE STEWART We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lyi...
JACKIE STEWART There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the w...
JACKIE STEWART It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who...
JACKIE STEWART Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung o...
JACKIE SPEIER It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products an...
JACKIE SPEIER When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really...
JACKIE SPEIER My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their inv...
JACKIE SPEIER When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class...
JACKIE SPEIER We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to ...
JACKIE SPEIER We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we mus...
JACKIE SPEIER We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of ...
JACKIE SPEIER In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my c...
JACKIE SPEIER We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their h...
JACKIE SPEIER I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's repro...
JACKIE SPEIER There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information ab...
JACKIE SPEIER When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destin...
JACKIE SPEIER It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having...
JACKIE SPEIER Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
JACKIE SPEIER My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on i...
JACKIE SPEIER Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning...
JACKIE SPEIER Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
JACKIE SPEIER I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes p...
JACKIE MASON My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or...
JACKIE MASON I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
JACKIE MASON I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
JACKIE MASON I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person ...
JACKIE MASON My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
JACKIE MASON I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny ...
JACKIE MASON If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
JACKIE MASON Predictions are preposterous.
JACKIE MASON I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
JACKIE MASON It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like...
JACKIE MASON He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l...
JACKIE KENNEDY Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
JACKIE KENNEDY What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie...
JACKIE KENNEDY I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da...
JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin...
JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al...
JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all.
JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it.
JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else.
JACKIE KENNEDY 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 I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
JACKIE GLEASON Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for in...
JACKIE GLEASON The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
JACKIE GLEASON If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav...
JACKIE GLEASON How sweet it is!
JACKIE GLEASON I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica...
JACKIE EVANCHO I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent&...
JACKIE EVANCHO I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I wa...
JACKIE EVANCHO Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking...
JACKIE EVANCHO Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.
JACKIE EVANCHO I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love...
JACKIE EVANCHO I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
JACKIE EVANCHO When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your a...
JACKIE EVANCHO It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
JACKIE EVANCHO The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I...
JACKIE EVANCHO Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really ex...
JACKIE EVANCHO I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative...
JACKIE EVANCHO I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
JACKIE EVANCHO I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t...
JACKIE EVANCHO I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give u...
JACKIE EVANCHO I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm usin...
JACKIE EVANCHO I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now ...
JACKIE EVANCHO It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun ...
JACKIE EVANCHO I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
JACKIE EVANCHO Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
JACKIE EVANCHO I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myse...
JACKIE EVANCHO I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I k...
JACKIE EVANCHO I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.
JACKIE EVANCHO And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
JACKIE DESHANNON I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
JACKIE DESHANNON I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu...
JACKIE DESHANNON I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful p...
JACKIE DESHANNON I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as be...
JACKIE DESHANNON I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artis...
JACKIE DESHANNON I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
JACKIE DESHANNON I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and a...
JACKIE DESHANNON Ignorance is kind of bliss.
JACKIE DESHANNON No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - ...
JACKIE DESHANNON The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
JACKIE DESHANNON There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impo...
JACKIE DESHANNON We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about wha...
JACKIE DESHANNON Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me,...
JACKIE DESHANNON When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the r...
JACKIE DESHANNON When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because o...
JACKIE DESHANNON And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis wa...
JACKIE DESHANNON I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, wi...
JACKIE DESHANNON There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springstee...
JACKIE DESHANNON Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some...
JACKIE DESHANNON And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long ...
JACKIE DESHANNON I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next c...
JACKIE COOPER I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like ...
JACKIE COOPER The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personalit...
JACKIE COOPER In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
JACKIE COOPER So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe...
JACKIE COOPER I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of me...
JACKIE COOPER But I want to do good work, after this series.
JACKIE COOPER But the working I would always want to do.
JACKIE COOPER A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
JACKIE COOPER I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a...
JACKIE COOPER Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and the...
JACKIE COOPER From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
JACKIE COOPER I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them...
JACKIE COOPER So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
JACKIE COOPER So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
JACKIE COOPER There was only so much television you could do.
JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
JACKIE COOPER They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they n...
JACKIE COOPER A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
JACKIE COOPER They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
JACKIE COOPER There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
JACKIE COOPER So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a...
JACKIE COOPER I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire...
JACKIE COOPER They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs becau...
JACKIE COOPER If it's boring, then it's tiring.
JACKIE COOPER