We're all so damned fragile.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if you give them a music mobile which turns on automatically versus a music mobile in which - if by chance their little legs or their little hands accidentally touches it - turns on they're so much more excited if by chance it turns on because they touched it, so that desire for control over their environment is. . . really appears from very early on and if you look at children's first words, "no, yes. "
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush