American Quotes

Forgotten is forgiven.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

Did I do all right?

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Above all, ignore the audience.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.