I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I can conduct better than I count.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

There is a shadow on every page.

It's hot as hell as can be.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

During the rests - pray.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

It's always great to add to your legacy.

When I'm on the track, I like hearing the fans cheer me on.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Never Try To Ruin Someone.. Thats Bad Karma.. Let Them Ruin Themselves The Victory Is That Much Sweeter. You Reap What You Sow

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'

The hard thing is making sure you work with wonderful people and that you get something out of it so that you can get better as an actor.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.

For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.