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Ours is a tough business to get into. In my case, it’s been a tough business to get out of, thank God.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, The Actor Awards (1 March 2026)
- Acting
It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.
Dolly Parton1946–2026Interview with Vanity Fair magazine (November 2012)
- Money
My joke [is that] if I have any regrets, it’s that I got caught with some of the stuff that I had no regret about.
Dolly Parton1946–2026Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
Criticism didn’t really stop us and it shouldn’t ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can’t get a record deal themselves.
Paul McCartneyborn 1942The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96
- Clever Jabs
- Music
Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can’t Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That’s going too far.
Paul McCartneyborn 1942The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969), p. 107
- Music
I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
Kanye Westborn 1977October 16, 2011 tweet
- Responsibility
Some people say, “New York’s a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” I say that about other places.
Robert De Niroborn 1943“What I’ve Learned”, Esquire
My breasts have had a brilliant career. I’ve just tagged along for the ride.
Pamela Andersonborn 1967Interview in The Mail on Sunday
I vowed I wouldn’t get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did⁠—but I got married anyway.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969
- Marriage
People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
Elton Johnborn 1947from 1976 interview with Rolling Stone magazine
- Sex
Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
Elton Johnborn 1947Sixty things for Sir Elton’s 60th (2007)
Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve Irwin1962–2006from “Enough Rope With Andrew Denton” on ABC, 2004
- Clever Jabs
- Movies
I’d like to imagine I won’t end up in hell, but I think I’ve done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
Dave Grohlborn 1969Maxim Magazine (January 2008)
- Religion
Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.
Sacha Baron Cohenborn 1971Golden Globe acceptance speech, Best Actor (Musical or Comedy), Borat (15 January 2007)
Star Trek never really caught on with audiences, ran for three seasons, and was canceled. I wish I had taken notes at the time, because you people sure do have a lot of questions about it.
William Shatnerborn 1931Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large (2011), with Chris Regan
- Television