Frankie Quotes

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. (Annette Funicello)

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

Melina Marchetta

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

Shia LaBeouf

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

E. Lockhart

I was in Big In Japan between '77 and '78. Then I went solo, releasing a couple of singles. Then I joined the Dancing Girls who turned into the Sons Of Egypt who were then whittled down into Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Holly Johnson

We are here to stir things up. Even people that hate us have to admit that we've already succeeded in doing that. Love Frankie or hate it - that's what we want - a strong reaction.

Holly Johnson

I do sometimes write songs that don't seem right for Frankie so they get filed away. But don't worry - anything good will be used. I'm not that gifted that I can afford to throw away any good stuff.

Holly Johnson

When Frankie Goes To Hollywood were still going strong, we made a point of being as Spinal Tap as possible. Yes, we had food fights. Yes, items were thrown out of hotel windows. But one childish prank I liked at the time was when we stayed in those really posh hotels where, at night, you could put your shoes out and in the morning they've been cleaned. We amused ourselves by roaming the corridors at night and having a crap in each pair of shoes we found. We even made bets: whoever filled the most shoes, won.

Holly Johnson

I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed? He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?

Frank McCourt

If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

Melina Marchetta

I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward. (Melina Marchetta)

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

Gerard Butler

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

Bruce Forsyth

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

Ethan Suplee

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

Eddie Floyd

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.

Frankie Muniz

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

Nick Frost

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Holly Johnson

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

Frank Lampard

[of his wife Frankie] "In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife."

Michael Powell (director)