People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.
I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.
We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.
We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.