I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.
A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn't say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
