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| | Beatrice Arthur |  | Well, Marlon had graduated from my school a couple of years earlier. But we were together at the Actor's Studio. Everybody was there, Jimmy Dean... And back then I saw Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope... She's an old lady now-Judith Anderson! I saw her play Medea. It was so exciting; there was so much theater to see. |
| | David Baker | | So I'm playing wrong changes while Mingus is standing in the door, looking at me, saying, "If you're gonna' play, at least play the right changes." And Mingus already had the reputation of having punched Jimmy Knepper out, and I didn't need that! |
| | Johnny Bench | | Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid! |
| | Art Buchwald | | Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope." |
| | Scott Caan | | I include Jimmy Caan with those other actors out of respect, not because of his process, but because I think he's an amazing actor. |
| | Joe Elliott | | Then you get up onstage and you become part Roger Daltrey, part Jimmy Page, part Robert Plant, part Davey Johanson, part Mark Bolin, and then part you. Eventually the "you" comes out and you disregard the other bits, but they got you to be somewhere. That's the way that we've always worked. |
| | Beth Gibbons | | I mostly listen to Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Janis Ian, Jimmy Cliff. Although lately I often listen to The Joshua Tree by U2. I love Bono's voice. It's very inspiring. |
| | Rich Little | | Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. |
| | Frank Morgan | | While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads. |
| | Donald O'Connor | | I worked with Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn - one of the greatest comedians and actors that ever lived - and Jimmy Durante. You can't ask for better than that. And it was great format. We had three and a half weeks to work on a show. It was a family-style thing. We used to walk on when someone was doing a handstand, crazy; we'd break them up. And it was great because it was live. They couldn't cut out the mistakes. And that's what audiences love. |
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