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

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 never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.