Don McLean Quotes
Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
Quotes to Explore
-
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
-
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
-
Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
-
Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
-
I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
-
I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
-
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
-
Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
-
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
-
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
-
I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
-
It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
-
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
-
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
-
Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
-
One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.
-
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
-
I don't need any nicknames.
-
The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.
-
Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
