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- I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm. -- Dick Dale
- I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work. -- Trent Reznor
- Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence. -- Ringo Starr
- I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way. -- Jackie Chan
- Gene Roddenberry was a genius. -- Persis Khambatta
- Well, you know somethin', Mean Gene... -- Hulk Hogan
- Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list. -- Paul Stanley
- Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom! -- The Iron Sheik
- Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now! -- Charles Stross
- Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight. -- Walter Hagen
- I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. -- Cris Judd
- Can't argue with Gene Roddenberry. He was a pretty brilliant guy. -- Brent Spiner
- Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time. -- Lane Garrison
- Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. -- Pope Benedict XVI
- The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent. -- Roy Wood
- I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. -- Dom DeLuise
- I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone -- Dom DeLuise
- You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge. -- Eugene Talmadge
- Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay. -- Dwight Schultz
- My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge. -- Terence Stamp
- Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face! -- Joel Edgerton
- Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records. -- Robert Quine
- Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll. -- John Lennon
- Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation. -- John C. Reilly
- Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation." -- John C. Reilly
- A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife. -- William H. Macy
- I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry -- Lee Majors
- I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry. -- Lee Majors
- A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. -- Ace Frehley
- I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. -- Robin Trower
- I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here. -- Tim DeKay
- Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done. -- Jerry Coleman
- I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day. -- Marguerite Moreau
- I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse. -- Robin Cousins
- I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was. -- Debbie Reynolds
- I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. -- LeVar Burton
- One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. -- Mel Brooks
- Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss". -- Bill Maher
- Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon. -- Jerry Coleman
- The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. -- Tite Kubo
- From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman. -- Steve Guttenberg
- I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher. -- Debbie Reynolds
- I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles. -- Richard Dawkins
- I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' -- Bill Gates
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- The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness. -- Ray Romano
- I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums. -- Dick Dale
- It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child. -- Catherine Deneuve
- I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. -- Lorna Luft
- I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. -- John Travolta
- My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him. -- Lucy Punch
- Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives. -- Marina Sirtis
- I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it. -- Mick Jagger
- Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things. -- Andy Warhol
- No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery. -- Vincent Price
- Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland. -- Imelda May
- Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled. -- Jim Lee
- My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well. -- David Sanborn
- I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do." -- Judd Apatow
- Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway. -- Evan Parker
- Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there. -- Kenny Ortega
- 'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced. -- Vanessa Paradis
- Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced. -- Vanessa Paradis
- Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me. -- Ace Frehley
- I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy. -- Thomas M. Disch
- Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo! -- Dan Jenkins
- I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model -- Adam Schiff
- Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis. -- Sandra Bullock
- I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. -- Jean Dujardin
- I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall. -- John C. McGinley
- When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character. -- Trent Reznor
- I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse. -- J. J. Abrams
- When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. -- Roy Lichtenstein
- The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was. -- Dave Barry
- People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism. -- Richard Dawkins
- I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation. -- Brian Dennehy
- When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. -- Harmony Korine
- When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989. -- Terry Gross
- I was a huge Della Reese fan, when Della Reese was on. I idolized all the panelists. I was in love with Kitty Carlisle. Nipsey Russell, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene Rayburn. -- Cynthia Nixon
- Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party. -- Manning Marable
- I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing. -- Chris Burke
- As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well. -- Maksim Chmerkovskiy
- I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait. -- Christian Kane
- I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet. -- Bob Fosse
- I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best. -- Jason Newsted
- I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best. -- Jason Newsted
- No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time. -- Tommy Gibbons
- You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre. -- Majel Barrett
- I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card. -- Chris Pine
- This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in 10,000 pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over 14,000 dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him. -- Tina Fey
- Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything. -- Debbie Reynolds
- I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. -- Hugh Hefner
- I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta. -- Olivia Newton-John
- Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James. -- Dick Dale
- I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman. -- Alan Furst
- I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical. -- Jamie Bell
- Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas. -- John Knowles
- I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s. -- Natalie Dormer
- Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly. -- David Rakoff
- Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. -- William Landay
- Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor. -- Debbie Reynolds
- I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever! -- Jeanette MacDonald
- I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me. -- Buddy Rich
- I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records. -- Imelda May
- The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House. -- Ben Shapiro
- He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene. -- Lou Albano
- Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn't just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant's DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt." -- Kenneth Eade
- He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly. -- Liza Minnelli
- I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid. -- Max von Essen
- The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised. -- Justin Timberlake
- And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. -- Nolan Ryan
- I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful. -- Gabriel Iglesias
- ...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard. -- Jo Nesbo
- Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory." -- Terry Gross
- I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do. -- Steven Adler
- Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background. -- Jillian Hervey
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- My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since. -- Johnny Griffin
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