With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

When you feel gloomy think what has been done within the last year. How rising from nothing.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.

At the base of it was the urge if you wanted to play football to knock someone down that was what the sport was all about the will to win closely linked with contact.

There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

In 1958, a year before the revolution, Magnum wanted to send me to Cuba because they had contacts with the rebels. I'd just spent six months in South America and said 'No', so I missed everything.

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.

Faith is trusting, that no matter what plan you had, God has a better one.

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.