Actor Quotes

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.

We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.