Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Two conspirators with a frog following the line of a whiffletree.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

I love action films. I don't really like drama.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

If you have a dream dont just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

I get on well with everybody. I've always been like that.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.