As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
I've shouted this from the rooftops, and I'll say it again: There's not another man on this Earth who is my size who can do what I do.
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down there. He was in town to organize a rally against public transportation. Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, which was illegal back then.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.
If I were born in the 1700s, I would look like a rounded man.
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
