I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

We've performed in South America and in Japan.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Love is a fragile corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension. Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

The IndyMac name had a lot of brand recognition - maybe for the wrong reasons, but there was recognition.

When you become famous being famous becomes your profession.

The country is laid out in a haphazard sloppy fashion offensive to the tidy organized mind.

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.

The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.

Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

Relent not in thy effort to do when you have to do for in delay lies mediocrity and in giving up lies perishing but when the grounds are not ready for landing hover purposefully.

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

I wasn't a guy who looked to score first. It was to get your teammates involved, to understand time and clock management and having fun with your teammates.

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since.

Jazz was my first love.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.