About The Beatles

Timothy Leary: I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Bob Dylan: They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go.

Billy Joel: The Beatles were the band that made me realise it was possible to make a living as a musician. When I heard the Beatles, I said "that's what I want to do".

Gene Simmons: The Beatles were a band, of course, and I loved their music. But they were also a cultural force that made it OK to be different. They didn't look like everyone else, and they still made the girls scream.

Dave Grohl: The three of us (Nirvana) grew up listening to the Beatles, then classic rock and punk. Somehow it all came together.

Liam Gallagher: I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.

Steven Spielberg: I resented the Beatles at first because it wasn't a fad I discovered for myself. I wasn't a Beatles fan until I listen to the White Album and became an instant convert.

Leonard Bernstein: Three bars of A Day In The Life still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities.

Johnny Ramone: my favorite artists have always been Elvis and the Beatles, and they still are.

Roger Daltrey: All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

David Lee Roth

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."

"The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism."

"Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello."

"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot."


"You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound."

" When large groups of people get together, their collective temperature goes up and their collective I.Q. goes down."

"Van Halen's up for a Grammy and half of us can't even spell it."

(About Sammy Hagar) "Sam throws a party. I am the party."

"Any kind of rock music is what I call high velocity folk music."

"We're not trying to save the world, that's U2's job."

"I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all."

"It don't matter what your doing, just as long as you look good doing it."

"I know the world doesn't revolve around Dave, but i like to think so."

"There's only one David Lee. I'm the fun in Van Halen, always will be."

John Lydon

John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, was one of the Architects of punk music and fashion.

"Chaos was my philosophy. Oh yeah, have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely."


" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records."

"Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. as soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be."

"I lost Sid, my best and dearest friend, to heroin, and it's not nice. You've got to get away from drugs as escapism. There's nothing you need to run away from yourself as a human being. Quite the opposite. Learn to love thyself and all will be fine."

"Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max."

"I'm surprised we aren't in jail for treason."

"The only place I have ever felt truly comfortable is on stage. I still get the nerves and the doubts beforehand, but on stage I feel that's my home."

(On Joe Strummer) "I miss him, by the way. There was something really good about him. He had a good little innocent spark in there, a real soul."

(On occupy Wall Street) "They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing the flute."

"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."

Bette Davis

"Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star.

"There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen."

"Success only breeds a new goal."

"I always had the will to win. I felt it baking cookies. They had to be the best cookies anyone baked."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves. They pretend they are someone else."

"I survived because I was tougher than anybody else."

"Everybody has a heart. Except some people."

"I've always liked men better than women."

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."

"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."

"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."

"I've always liked men better than women."

"I will never be below the title."

"I am just too much."

Don Rickles

Greatest Don Rickles Insults

To Frank Sinatra: "Hey, Frank. Make yourself at home. Hit someone."

To Ernest Borgnine: "Look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident?"

To Joey Bishop: "Joey Bishop, who passed away and wasn't told about it."

To Milton Berle: "I Love Milton, you were my idol when I was a kid. Now I'm getting shock treatments."

To Anthony Quinn: "A wonderful man, we had dinner the other night in L.A. Still eats with his hands."

To Johnny Carson: "You keep it up Johnny and I'm gonna tell everyone that you double date with Merv Griffen."

To Orson Welles: "Orson Welles has been a great star for so many years. This man was married to a great many women in his life, they're all flat now."

To Ed Sullivan: "Once in a while Ed, move you're body or they're gonna throw dirt on you."

To Robert DeNiro: "He's one of the great actors of our time. You ask him."

To Larry King: "Look at you, you're schviting (sweating) all over the place. Do you have a home on Guam?

Julia Roberts

" I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad."

"I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed."

"I can direct breakfast, lunch and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie."


"I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life."


"You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself."

"I'm an utterly average, total geek."

"Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office."

"My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair."

"What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day."

"I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."

I believe that the way you feel about your life will eventually show up on your face."

"Im just a girl from a little town in Georgia who had this giant, absurd dream."

Katharine Hepburn

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

"Enemies are so stimulating."

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."


"Acting is a nice childish profession. Pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself."

"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

"As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move."

"If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."

"With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable."

"the lack of work destroys people."

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers...but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

"People have grown fond of me, like some old building."

Elvis Presley

"When I got out of high school I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis."

"Since the beginning it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."

"The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one."


"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life., not set any kind of bad example."

"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image."

"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."

"When things go wrong don't go with them."

"I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up."

"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films, I could watch Rebel Without A Cause a hundred times over."

(To the Beatles) "Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed."

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it."

"Those people in New York are not gonna change me none."

"I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath."

Charlie Sheen

"I'm not bi-polar, I'm bi-winning. I win here and I win There."

(About producer Chuck Lorre) "I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can't handle my power and can't handle the truth. I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."



"look what I'm dealing with, man. I'm dealing with fools and trolls."

"There's a new sheriff in town and he has an army of assassins."

"Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books. We win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it's scary. People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view."

"I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren't special. People who don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA."

"If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently."

"There's a storm coming, and it's me."

"I'm on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. It's too much."

"The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning."