a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy.

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

I'm sort of a foot-on-the-gas kind of guy.

She can kick it as good as any guy goalie. Heck, guys come here and say 'I got to watch this' and she's good.

I perceived that the gangster movie had replaced the Western as the quintessential American movie myth,

I think you kick a guy in the butt in a tough situation, it's only gonna make it worse. You shouldn't go out there and say, 'You (stink), it's still a strike.' It's messing with a kid's head.