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JESSE MCCARTNEY The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKS A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other N...
NAT KING COLE He was the only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
MICHAEL FOOT It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam...
STAN PERKINS I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our St...
STROM THURMOND The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
MALCOLM X The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will m...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde...
JAMES BALDWIN To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outside...
LANGSTON HUGHES I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley ...
RICHARD HELL I always liked Elvis Presley when I was younger - I told anyone who would listen that I was going to...
ISLA FISHER If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should ...
CARTER G. WOODSON The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dare...
IDA B. WELLS People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror......
JOSEPHINE BAKER If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's C...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
J. M. W. TURNER Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no lo...
C. L. R. JAMES If the music business grew by a billion dollars, if the paperback book business grew by a billion do...
CRAIG KORNBLAU I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growt...
EMANUEL CELLER When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociol...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM It is true that the white man (and by this I mean Christian civilization in general) has proved hims...
ANDREW GOODMAN If I do something good then I am American, but if I do something bad then I am a Negro!
TOMMIE SMITH I could make a difference.
CHRIS BURKE If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
ROBIN TROWER When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a...
ATO ESSANDOH Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. Abo...
WALLACE HENRY THURMAN In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
CHARLEY PRIDE If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
DANNY MASTERSON In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.
BUCK LEONARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
COUNTEE CULLEN Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
ANTHONY BRAXTON I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.
ANNE SPENCER I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
TERRY MCMILLAN I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one
TERRY MCMILLAN Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could nev...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could nev...
SAMMY DAVIS JR. The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chan...
HENRY MILLER Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS But look at the alternative. You could have an entire city devastated, $20 billion dollars of damage...
JOSEPH SUHAYDA Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for ...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I graduated pretty quickly. When I was eleven or twelve a close friend of the family got lynched. I ...
MEDGAR EVERS No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS People, even if they are so thoughtless as to be born black, do not come into this world merely to p...
JAMES BALDWIN If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
RITA ORA If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
ENRICO FERMI I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invente...
MARK TWAIN I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invente...
MARK TWAIN I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together
SYDNEY SMITH Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.
DONALD TRUMP If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in l...
LEELEE SOBIESKI My life has been nothing special. I am a quiet person who came from a very ordinary, middle-class Ne...
RUTH ELLIS If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradis...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.
HENRY CARTER STUART If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it ma...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the mome...
COUNTEE CULLEN Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely...
LANGSTON HUGHES If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the ha...
PAUL WILLIAMS Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...
LANGSTON HUGHES I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a pass...
SUSAN SONTAG If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like ...
DONALD JUSTICE The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was...
CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON we'll smoke some weed and do it
NEGRO FRIJOLES remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
W.E.B. DU BOIS The Negro is America's metaphor,
RICHARD WRIGHT If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
GORDON WALLER Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic...
JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said.
Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a ...
JANET EVANOVICH In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretche...
FANNY KEMBLE It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
ROGER MARIS You can only imagine that they could end up spending an incremental billion to billion and a half [d...
BRENDAN BARNICLE If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I expect the company to offer an upfront settlement of $1 billion. That, in a sense, could make NTP ...
BENJAMIN BOLLIN I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my im...
PETE BURNS I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husb...
HEDY LAMARR I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and...
ABBEY LINCOLN Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justic...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.
MEGYN KELLY If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.
BILLY HOWLE I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by red...
JIMMY BUFFETT The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respe...
NAT KING COLE For years, Elvis Presley Enterprises and the Presley family have envisioned a project like this. We ...
JACK SODEN I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the ri...
SARAH SNOOK I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 year...
DRAKE BELL I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a s...
EVEL KNIEVEL I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I lo...
MARILYN MONROE

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Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
ELVIS PRESLEY Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
ELVIS PRESLEY Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
ELVIS PRESLEY There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to ge...
ELVIS PRESLEY I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
ELVIS PRESLEY The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more year...
ELVIS PRESLEY The army teaches boys to think like men.
ELVIS PRESLEY Man, I really like Vegas.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, pu...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare...
ELVIS PRESLEY A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY I never expected to be anybody important.
ELVIS PRESLEY Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
ELVIS PRESLEY Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it...
ELVIS PRESLEY Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
ELVIS PRESLEY Ah just act the way ah feel.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
ELVIS PRESLEY I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public a...
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
ELVIS PRESLEY The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
ELVIS PRESLEY I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the l...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
ELVIS PRESLEY I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
ELVIS PRESLEY I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm si...
ELVIS PRESLEY When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got th...
ELVIS PRESLEY I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hu...
ELVIS PRESLEY There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man...
ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi...
ELVIS PRESLEY I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
ELVIS PRESLEY Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happen...
ELVIS PRESLEY It was during Elvis' 18-month assignment in West Germany when he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, who was...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'll stay in Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big....
ELVIS PRESLEY I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm no hillbilly singer.
ELVIS PRESLEY After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't make no dirty movements
ELVIS PRESLEY Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he...
ELVIS PRESLEY When things go bad, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
ELVIS PRESLEY Just a minute,
ELVIS PRESLEY I ain't no saint, but I have tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I f...
ELVIS PRESLEY Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
ELVIS PRESLEY Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
ELVIS PRESLEY I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch,
ELVIS PRESLEY Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong don't go with them
ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i...
ELVIS PRESLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
ELVIS PRESLEY Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
ELVIS PRESLEY A Sharon.
ELVIS PRESLEY It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine.
ELVIS PRESLEY I am hands on with this with Bruno,
ELVIS PRESLEY The interior of the car consists of reupholstered seats, as well as Elvis' initials on the inside of...
ELVIS PRESLEY better stick to driving trucks.
ELVIS PRESLEY You got change, man?
ELVIS PRESLEY We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,
ELVIS PRESLEY Illusions of The King.
ELVIS PRESLEY and I got the collection my Mother had, and I can't sell any of it.
ELVIS PRESLEY Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I j...
ELVIS PRESLEY A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hund...
ELVIS PRESLEY The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the ye...
ELVIS PRESLEY Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
ELVIS PRESLEY Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one
ELVIS PRESLEY I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w...
ELVIS PRESLEY When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Those movies sure got me into a rut.
ELVIS PRESLEY It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to dr...
ELVIS PRESLEY My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
ELVIS PRESLEY I was an overnight sensation.
ELVIS PRESLEY That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
ELVIS PRESLEY The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first reco...
ELVIS PRESLEY When I get married, it'll be no secret.
ELVIS PRESLEY I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't do any vulgar movements.
ELVIS PRESLEY Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, onc...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
PRISCILLA PRESLEY He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell o...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY As we grow and expand our retail and direct sales presence, so has our need to expand our distributi...
DAVE PRESLEY As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY There is the understanding of the music and culture of the area. The band has studied the idea of th...
WADE PRESLEY My mom is 79, my dad is 80. I felt they had so much to add, and we didn't want them to pass on and f...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.
PRISCILLA PRESLEY We will continue to add to the Music Wall of Fame as pictures are brought in.
WADE PRESLEY I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY Local, county and state officials responded very positively to REI locating in Bedford, which has a ...
DAVE PRESLEY The state's support and understanding of our business needs has been truly amazing, and we look forw...
DAVE PRESLEY No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY 'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w...
ELVIS COSTELLO No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '...
ELVIS MITCHELL When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's n...
ELVIS MITCHELL One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &...
ELVIS MITCHELL The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
ELVIS MITCHELL The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
ELVIS COSTELLO My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
ELVIS COSTELLO Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras...
ELVIS MITCHELL Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
ELVIS MITCHELL The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the re...
ELVIS MITCHELL Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that wil...
ELVIS MITCHELL What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a j...
ELVIS MITCHELL Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up st...
ELVIS MITCHELL The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the mos...
ELVIS MITCHELL Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Rep...
ELVIS MITCHELL A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to...
ELVIS MITCHELL Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind...
ELVIS MITCHELL '8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consump...
ELVIS MITCHELL 'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn,...
ELVIS MITCHELL Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M...
ELVIS MITCHELL 'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the audi...
ELVIS MITCHELL I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien...
ELVIS MITCHELL And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ...
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi l...
ELVIS MITCHELL It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see...
ELVIS MITCHELL Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her n...
ELVIS MITCHELL I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
ELVIS COSTELLO Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the...
ELVIS MITCHELL If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitl...
ELVIS MITCHELL I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strateg...
ELVIS COSTELLO Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. Th...
ELVIS MITCHELL Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
ELVIS MITCHELL We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we'r...
ELVIS MITCHELL If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks lik...
ELVIS MITCHELL The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and ...
ELVIS MITCHELL I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going...
ELVIS COSTELLO Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that ...
ELVIS MITCHELL The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minut...
ELVIS MITCHELL His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated '...
ELVIS MITCHELL Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
ELVIS COSTELLO Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
ELVIS COSTELLO Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muham...
ELVIS MITCHELL Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the compl...
ELVIS MITCHELL I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
ELVIS STOJKO 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
ELVIS MITCHELL The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting th...
ELVIS COSTELLO The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film ...
ELVIS MITCHELL 'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged g...
ELVIS MITCHELL The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly &#...
ELVIS MITCHELL The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action...
ELVIS MITCHELL People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. ...
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Micha...
ELVIS MITCHELL You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government...
ELVIS MITCHELL I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation
just because you've never been denied.
You try ...
ELVIS COSTELLO I find humming is very useful.
ELVIS COSTELLO Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from sc...
ELVIS MITCHELL Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially ...
ELVIS MITCHELL The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that...
ELVIS MITCHELL It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it i...
ELVIS MITCHELL When I Was Cruel.
ELVIS COSTELLO It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it...
ELVIS MITCHELL I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like bei...
ELVIS MITCHELL Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and th...
ELVIS MITCHELL It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to s...
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p...
ELVIS MITCHELL The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those sq...
ELVIS MITCHELL We were really looking for a fresh sound, and I think you can hear that with the use of electronics ...
ELVIS COSTELLO There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groov...
ELVIS COSTELLO We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific...
ELVIS COSTELLO