Armstrong Quotes

"Samaire (Armstrong) and I spent a lot of time shopping together and just running around town. She`s such a great girl. She`s an artist and has a really creative mind. I loved it when they sent me the Stay Alive (2006) script. Mc G called and said `listen, read this role and tell me what you think`. She`s so different from anybody I`ve gotten to play which was what drew me to it. Aside from the fact that the script is great, original and creepy as hell, the character is very, very cool. She`s such a bad ass. She`s a rough around the edge girl and fits into this sect that is of New Orleans".

With age, what you learn most is doing what you do even better. That doesn`t mean Louis Armstrong at 70 was better than Louis Armstrong at 20. But he did get Louis Armstrong across better. And the same is true of the Stones. It must seem strange that we do the same thing with the same boys all these years later. It seems strange to me. But it`s like when you get drunk at a bar and wonder later how you got home. You know where you are - you`re home - but how did you get there? That`s the mystery.

She owns some of Hollywood`s stars` most priceless possessions (Louis Armstrong`s bongo drums among others). She also has a collection of vintage Hollywood costumes, including Russ Tamblyn`s jacket from West Side Story (1961), Leslie Caron`s dress from An American in Paris (1951), Claudette Colbert`s gown from It Happened One Night (1934), Olivia de Havilland`s blouse from Gone with the Wind (1939), and Sandra Dee`s bikini from the "Tammy movies".

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he`s inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that`s what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong`s landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

The distribution of power! Jan has the absolute power in the team - like Lance Armstrong...in the years of his Tour victories.

I have always said that a Tour victory is more valuable if Lance Armstrong is participating. I will do everything I can to beat him in his last appearance on the Tour.

It`s a lot more open without Armstrong. I really have to be careful that I have everything in hand. Basso is always getting better, Heras has to bring his Vuelta performance to the Tour, and Vino has already announced his intentions.

(Armstrong rode much of Sunday`s stage toward the head of the field with riders from his Postal squad. Their game plan was to) stay at the front, everybody together, try to protect Lance and make sure there`s no big breakaways, ... Mainly to stay out of trouble.

Like Lance Armstrong, they`re both going out on top,

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Every single time, they`ll face the same problem that confronted Neil Armstrong. Any autonomous vehicle has to have the same degree of smarts. Without that, it`s very difficult to picture a step-by-step progression of a human return to the moon in 10-to-15 years.

Andrew Armstrong is guilty of a lot of things. There is a history with this man. . . . But the thing he`s guilty of more than anything else is generosity to his employees.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Armstrong was too strong.

Armstrong is the strongest man on this Tour. I think he`s still got gas in his tank.

We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely wild birds.

He has forced Armstrong to come out and play!

The (French) people don`t dislike (Armstrong). But there are certain elements of the French press that have always gone after him throughout his reign. But they`ve never proven a thing. It`s always been circumstantial. I don`t believe he takes drugs.