Jackie's Quotes

#1. One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#2. Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations. - Author: Jackie Battenfield

#3. It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want. - Author: Jackie Mason

#4. I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights. - Author: Jackie DeShannon

#5. If I had to choose between baseball's Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. - Author: Jackie Robinson

#6. Stella, you totally deserve double whatever Jackie's paying you. - Author: Veronica Blade

#7. Love's not what makes the world go around. - Author: Jackie Collins

#8. Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me. - Author: Jackie Chan

#9. It's so fun because Jason [Mantzoukas]'s one of the smartest people I've met in comedy. So unbelievably fast comedically - so he's quick with whatever, but it's fun to watch someone be so quick and so stupid simultaneously. - Author: Jackie Schaffer

#10. The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am. - Author: Jackie Chan

#11. When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything. - Author: Jackie Chan

#12. I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#13. Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. - Author: Carlos Beltran

#14. Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#15. And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing. - Author: Jackie Kessler

#16. Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#17. It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls. - Author: John Sayles

#18. Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is. - Author: Lynda Resnick

#19. A book can change the world ... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. - Author: Jackie French

#20. I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans. - Author: Jackie Chan

#21. Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts. - Author: Jackie Speier

#22. There's only one person in Cape Town who deals with finding the weird,' he says. 'You need to see Jackie Ronin. - Author: Charlie Human

#23. I like Jackie [Chan] because I've been a fan of Jackie's forever. He's broken every bone in his body for his commitment and dedication to doing his own stunts. So he's the real deal. - Author: Jason Statham

#24. When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions. - Author: Jackie Chan

#25. I don't know what to do about him, Sammy." (Jackie)

"It's not what you do about him. It's what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I'm assuming he has, and show him what New York has to offer. - Author: Ali Novak

#26. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection. - Author: Jackie Kennedy

#27. I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#28. I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?. - Author: Jackie Chan

#29. Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#30. I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about. - Author: Jackie Mason

#31. You're here covering the murders, bad girl," Jackie continued. "Adora must hate that. Sleeping in her house with your dirty little brain. ( ... ) Course before Adora took it over, we all slept over at Joya's house with our dirty little brains. Same house, different crazy lady running it. - Author: Gillian Flynn

#32. I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.' - Author: Tony Jaa

#33. Anybody who's in favor of gun control is a fucking moron. - Author: Jackie Mason

#34. Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? - Author: Jackie Kennedy

#35. My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation. - Author: Jackie Kay

#36. It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints. - Author: Jackie Kay

#37. There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti. - Author: Jackie Stewart

#38. I have one promise I can make you, Kate." He reached for her hair, coiled some of it around his hand, and used it to pull her toward him.
"What's that?" she whispered breathlessly. Not so cocky now.
"You're going to enjoy this. - Author: Jackie Braun

#39. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#40. underneath the chilly grey november sky
we can make believe that kennedy is still alive and
we're shooting for the moon and smiling,
jackie's driving by and

they say, good try - Author: Andy Prieboy

#41. I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#42. I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#43. I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing ... and the audience is there waiting. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#44. You know, at this point, my focus still is acting, but I think at some point in time, I definitely want to do some directing, I'm just not sure when. But it's not on my plate big-time right now, just because I'm busy, and I'm having such a great time. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#45. I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him. - Author: Jackie Jackson

#46. Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#47. Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That's right - two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen. - Author: Jackie Mason

#48. The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#49. I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now. - Author: Jackie DeShannon

#50. As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest. - Author: Jackie Speier

#51. Tell her to come in. Let's see if we can help sucker her boyfriend into a lifetime commitment." - Jeff, HOOK, LINE AND SINK HIM - Author: Jackie Pilossoph

#52. [On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends. - Author: Jackie Kennedy

#53. We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. - Author: Jackie Stewart

#54. I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that's probably one of the reasons I don't like the idea of prolific. - Author: Jackie French

#55. Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home. - Author: Jackie Kay

#56. I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life. - Author: Jackie Kay

#57. With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova. - Author: Jackie Speier

#58. The catch off Bobby Morgan
(a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes - Author: Willie Mays

#59. Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually. - Author: Dolph Lundgren

#60. It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas. - Author: Jackie Speier

#61. I think that it doesn't matter if I travel all over the place. I'll always be a normal teenager on the inside. It always depends on how you act yourself, not what happens to you. That's my view of it all. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#62. It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can. - Author: Andre Holland

#63. As they stepped outside into the sandy dusk, the bell on the door jingled faintly in Jackie's mind like a favorite song to which she could no longer quite remember the tune. - Author: Joseph Fink

#64. Why is it that they have Bibles in every motel room? Why should a man want to read the Bible when he's with a woman alone in a motel room? Why would he be interested? Whatever he's praying for, he's already got! - Author: Jackie Mason

#65. Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you - Author: Jackie Chan

#66. It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#67. The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers. - Author: Jackie Collins

#68. The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future. - Author: Jackie Kennedy

#69. When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#70. I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on. - Author: Jackie Collins

#71. You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree. - Author: Jackie Kennedy

#72. JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch! - Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis

#73. We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia. - Author: Jackie Huggins

#74. I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently. - Author: Jackie Collins

#75. It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#76. A healthy sweat comes from being passionate and throwing yourself into your workout. And again, it's achieving that intensity. I always like to say 'It's not how long, it's how strong'. - Author: Jackie Warner

#77. A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job. - Author: Jackie Cooper

#78. Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#79. Jackie's good arm was out the window, the sandy air tickling her skin with hundreds of inconsequential stings, a tangible Morse code saying something meaningless. Jackie - Author: Joseph Fink

#80. With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness. Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came. - Author: Jackie French

#81. Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in. - Author: Jackie Kay

#82. There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.) - Author: Federico Fellini

#83. There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#84. I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end. - Author: Jackie French

#85. Your body isn't really yours, Jackie boy. Your body is mine and I'm claiming squatter's rights. - Author: Jonathan Dunne

#86. I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#87. Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance. - Author: Audrey Meadows

#88. I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer. - Author: Jackie Chan

#89. Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it. - Author: Jackie Evancho

#90. Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made. - Author: Jackie Chan

#91. There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it. - Author: Jackie Earle Haley

#92. It's not how long; it's how strong. - Author: Jackie Warner

#93. Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are. - Author: Jackie Stewart

#94. Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark. - Author: Jackie Schaffer

#95. Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. - Author: Jackie Speier

#96. The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely. - Author: Jackie Trippier Holt

#97. There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free. - Author: Jackie Robinson

#98. I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. - Author: Jackie Chan

#99. I love people-watching at the clubs in Los Angeles, where girls make fools of themselves and guys pay thousands of dollars for a couple of bottles of vodka just so they can get a table. It's quite a scene. - Author: Jackie Collins

#100. When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!' - Author: Jackie Chan