Charlie Quotes - page 6

I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts. (Randy Castillo)
Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind. View quote
Sonny Rollins
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other. View quote
Tim Cahill
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. View quote
Tommy Chong
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. View quote
Vida Blue
I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.' View quote
Walter Payton
- What's your favorite movie you've been in? - That's a hard question. You love every movie because you become a family and you bond and it's so much fun. But in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," we were in London for six months. It was a fun set. Nothing could have made it any better. View quote
AnnaSophia Robb
... name association was big, as were my presumed interests in vaudeville and politics. In St. Louis the Bow tie was characterized as "very Charlie McCarthy", while in Chicago a young man defined it as "the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party". View quote
David Sedaris
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life. View quote
Josh Gad
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy. View quote
Josh Gad
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. (Russell Crowe)
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. View quote
Jean-Michel Basquiat
No no, Jock...we're going to push him out of a window. Your bedroom window, I think. Yes, and we'll undress him first and say that he was making advances to you and jumped out of the window in a frenzy of thwarted love." "I say, Charlie, really, what a filthy rotten idea; I mean, think of my wife." "I never think of policemen's wives, their beauty maddens me like wine. View quote
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Satire in media such as The Interview and Charlie Hebdo walk a fine line between freedom of speech and dangerous incitement. View quote
Newton Lee
War isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real. View quote
Paddy Chayefsky
CHARLIE ROSE: Let me rephrase the question, then. Is there anybody that you know who you respect who comes to a different conclusion than you do? View quote
Al Gore
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie. View quote
Denise Richards
It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him. View quote
Neil Gaiman
And I was painting and changing and developing and going through [c. 1950-52] that bridge from early Kandinsky and Gorky to my own [painting] thing. And just soaking up [Willem] de Kooning and [Jackson] Pollock... So I had the place to myself. And while Bill [= Willem] and Elaine [de Kooning] and Charlie [Egan] and such would maybe come to my studio, there was no thought,.... of my going in with those four or five young ones. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous. (Alicia Witt)
We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes... View quote
Orson Welles
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too. View quote
Paul McCartney
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. View quote
Lee Iacocca
For there could be no more than one human derelict in any single village - through some strange social law there was never room for more than one of them. Old Bill or Old Charlie or Old Tobe - the pity of the people, regarded with a mingled sentiment of tolerance and disgust. And just as surely as there could not be more than one of them, there always was that one. View quote
Clifford D. Simak