Ben Vereen
Related The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son... ISAIAH WASHINGTON You have to work hard at reinventing yourself, so you have to choose new people who push you, ... Be... DAVID GAHAN When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER ROBERT WILSON Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a... DAMIAN LEWIS MICK JAGGER TINA TURNER Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he ne... ARTIE LANGE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON GEORGE HARRISON KHLOE KARDASHIAN If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 yea... DANIEL BOULUD ELTON JOHN BILLY CORGAN I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it... FELICITY JONES VICTORIA JUSTICE I am making use of social media as a marketing tool. It's a great way to market yourself and you... CECE PENISTON When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super dep... GALLANT The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinve... MIKE WATT I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to ... BERNHARD GOETZ JAMES DOBSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON ADRIENNE BAILON A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you hav... WARREN GILES RITA ORA JOE TORRE HARRY DEAN STANTON It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It... DANNY BOYLE AL SHARPTON KRISTAN HIGGINS No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since th... CHERYL TIEGS LINDA RONSTADT It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel lik... FLORENCE HENDERSON AUGUST WILSON JULIANNE MOORE DARREN ARONOFSKY My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ... JOE LHOTA THALIA STELLA MCCARTNEY DYLAN MCDERMOTT I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have ... CASEY NEISTAT It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON CHARLES BUKOWSKI VIGGO MORTENSEN CAMILLE PAGLIA EMO PHILIPS As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, ... EVAN GOLDBERG I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the bur... NADINE LABAKI New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new med... BEN HUH I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for year... VANITY It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's ... ICE CUBE I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit... ABIGAIL BRESLIN IRIS APFEL JOELLE CARTER ALEC BALDWIN My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM CHRIS HEMSWORTH At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical a... AUDRINA PATRIDGE Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidenc... KATE VOEGELE In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in N... ENRICO COLANTONI BONO RUDY GIULIANI ELMORE LEONARD What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That'... ELLE FANNING JULIA STILES ALAN STERN JENNETTE MCCURDY It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly op... EMUN ELLIOTT WES ANDERSON He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in h... JAMES HOGG FRANK DILLANE ROBERT REDFORD TOM COLICCHIO PATTI DAVIS It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi... ELIZA COUPE When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New Yor... ALEKSA PALLADINO ERIN WASSON JEFF LINDSAY JOHN ROBINSON It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ... CALISTA FLOCKHART If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parke... R. J. CUTLER DEBRA WINGER After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find somet... ELVIS STOJKO When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big,... ROBBIE ROBERTSON My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye... DAMON WAYANS, JR. I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name ac... FINN WITTROCK I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, ... MASI OKA I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Em... BURN GORMAN I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City'... DARREN STAR BRUCE LIPTON In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon,... DOUGLAS HODGE It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less ... 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The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you ... 
You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it... 
Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locall... 
If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amo... 
Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is ... 
Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't ... 
You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hu... 
New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it'... 
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay... 
Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl... 
I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at R... 
When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you&... 
It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a ... 
In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300... 
It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving towar... 
Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, '... 
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... 
Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very qu... 
I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep... 
There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yoursel... 
What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so co... 
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn&... 
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Te... 
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I sai... 
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo... 
I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot a... 
I've had a relatively charmed life. I loved to be out in the city. New York was my town. I'v... 
I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often ... 
When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... t... 
When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise... 
A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have... 
I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for... 
It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's com... 
I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get ... 
When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that... 
My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of... 
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. ... 
When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The old... 
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di... 
The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a differ... 
My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every sin... 
Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome ... 
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easi... 
There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll r... 
It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of th... 
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... 
Jack Nicholson didn't get anything until he was in his thirties. You have to persevere and put y... 
Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of... 
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said... 
You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you c... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of ha... 
As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and disci... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... 
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ... 
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ... 
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ... 
Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho... 
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif... 
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
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This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... 
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. 
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
Art has an enemy called ignorance. 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th... 
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar... 