I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.

I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

We shouldnt be fearful of failure because is not a monster as we think it is. Its just a training ground for those who are really striving for excellence in life.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, 'No. I'm not satisfied. I don't want to wait, and I don't want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.'

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.

Champions all get kicked when theyre down.

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glory.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they've played on, coaches they've played for.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform.

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Everyone dies eventually, whether they have power or not. That's why you need to think about what you'll accomplish while you're alive.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.