Top 100 Costello Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Costello

#1. I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

#2. The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Dan Hill

#3. Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.

Drake Bell

#4. My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

Nick Lowe

#6. This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First.

Kelly Moran

#7. I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Shane MacGowan

#8. We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.

Kel Mitchell

#9. People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

Ray Romano

#10. You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience.

Diana Krall

#11. Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

Elliott Smith

#12. Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

David Lee Roth

#13. Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello

David Lee Roth

#14. It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

Bud Abbott

#15. It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Bud Abbott

#16. No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

J.M. Coetzee

#17. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.

Robert Lacey

#18. I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.

Todd Rundgren

#19. What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.

Michael Weatherly

#20. Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

Ron Rash

#21. Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

Tim Heidecker

#22. Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

Nick Lowe

#23. Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Chip Esten

#24. Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman ...

Neil Gaiman

#25. We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

Chuck Comeau

#26. I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

Patrick Stump

#27. Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

Harvey Korman

#28. As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Laura Lippman

#29. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Elvis Costello

#30. There's a girl in this dress,
there's always a girl in distress.

Elvis Costello

#31. I owe my allegiance to the working class.

Seamus Costello

#32. This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Jerry Costello

#33. Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Jerry Costello

#34. And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

Elvis Costello

#35. You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Elvis Costello

#36. Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.

Elvis Costello

#37. It was a real party of swells.

Elvis Costello

#38. all the grains of sand make the beach

Stephen Costello

#39. I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

Elvis Costello

#40. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Elvis Costello

#41. Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

Jerry Costello

#42. It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.

Elvis Costello

#43. I used to be disgusted. Now, I'm just amused...

Elvis Costello

#44. Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Elvis Costello

#45. If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.

Peter Costello

#46. And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Elvis Costello

#47. Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elvis Costello

#48. Don't get smart or sarcastic
He snaps back just like elastic
Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics
We break wise guys just like matchsticks

Elvis Costello

#49. I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

Elvis Costello

#50. Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Elvis Costello

#51. It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Jerry Costello

#52. I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.

Tim Costello

#53. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

Elvis Costello

#54. You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind;
You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine ...

Elvis Costello

#55. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.

Elvis Costello

#56. He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

Mark Costello

#57. It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Elvis Costello

#58. She's no angel.
He's no saint.

Elvis Costello

#59. The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

Seamus Costello

#60. While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Jerry Costello

#61. Oh, I know that she's disgusted,
cause she's feeling so abused.
She gets tired of the lust,
but it's so hard to refuse.

Elvis Costello

#62. What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?

Lou Costello

#63. We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

Frank Costello

#64. Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

Frank Costello

#65. Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

Elvis Costello

#66. Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Jerry Costello

#67. For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.

Elvis Costello

#68. Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.

Elvis Costello

#69. Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

Jerry Costello

#70. The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

Elvis Costello

#71. Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Elvis Costello

#72. Well, I used to be disgusted.
Now I try to be amused.

Elvis Costello

#73. Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

Frank Costello

#74. If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

Elvis Costello

#75. I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Elvis Costello

#76. It can be hard at times, but you must trust God. You shouldn't take things into your own hands. He always knows best.

Debbie Lynne Costello

#77. I don't wanna be a lover,
I just wanna be your victim.

Elvis Costello

#78. It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

Elvis Costello

#79. We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

Tim Costello

#80. The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Elvis Costello

#81. S you check your effects, check your reflection,
I'm so affected in the face of your affection

Elvis Costello

#82. As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, Look, he's still moving!

Peter Costello

#83. There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

Elvis Costello

#84. Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

Jerry Costello

#85. It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Elvis Costello

#86. I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Elvis Costello

#87. Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Elvis Costello

#88. These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Elvis Costello

#89. When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

Elvis Costello

#90. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

#91. Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Elvis Costello

#92. The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge
and guilt.

Elvis Costello

#93. You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.
Now fear is here to stay,
love is here for a visit.

Elvis Costello

#94. A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy their model and accidentally creating something new. The closer you get to your ideal, the less original you sound.

Elvis Costello