Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.