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I`ll tell you when I`m going to play the Palace. That`s when Eddie Cantor and George Burns and Groucho Marx and Jack Benny are on the bill. I`m going to buy out the whole house, and sit in the middle of the orchestra and say, `Slaves, entertain the king!`

- Al Jolson

I played a sex-drenched doctor in The Bramble Bush (1960). It was the worst picture I ever made, if you don`t count Ice Palace (1960). That one was based upon a very weak novel by Edna Ferber. Both pictures for Warner Brothers. Jack L. Warner told the press I had no sex appeal. Then Elizabeth came along. All changed after that. Suddenly, Eddie Fisher didn`t have sex appeal. And I did. It`s a crazy world for a Welsh coal miner`s son born in November 1925.

- Richard Burton

You can`t get a place more conflicted than Cambodia. You come up with ideas as you go. Film ideas come into your head. Sometimes you write them down. Sometimes they just pass you by. This one goes back to `93 when I went to Phnom Penh. It was an extended vacation and I knew very little of Cambodia. What I knew of it was The Killing Fields. What really opened my eyes and surprised me was how beautiful the country was. Phnom Penh was this partially destroyed city but a lot of it had been preserved. The royal palace is there and all the pagodas along the Mekong River. It was a real contrast from say, Bangkok. There was also this palpable sense of danger. There were a number of ex-pats I met too and these people were as interesting as the places. Guys that had opened bars and felt like they couldn`t go back. About a year later I read an article in the Tribune that Cambodia was being used as a fugitive haven. It sort of presented itself to me as an opportunity to do something really interesting. - On what inspired Dillon to base City of Ghosts in Cambodia.

- Matt Dillon

I don`t know a single person who hasn`t been deeply moved by the video footage and news reports coming out of the Gulf Coast over the past two weeks. We have several players and employees within the Palace Sports & Entertainment family whose lives were directly impacted by Katrina, and as an organization we are encouraging everybody to participate in the hurricane relief efforts by any means available to them, no matter how big or small.

- Swin Cash

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

- Anthony Holden

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they`re riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

- Anthony Holden

We went to this huge, icecream picture palace to see a Bollywood movie. Here we were, with 2,000 Indians watching a film in Hindi, and there was the lowest possible comedy and then incredible drama and tragedy and then break out in songs. And it was three-and-a-half hours! We thought we had suddenly learnt Hindi, because we understood everything! (Laughter) We thought it was incredible. How involved the audience were. How uncool they were - how their coolness had been ripped aside and how they were united in this singular sharing of the story. The thrill of thinking, `Could we ever do that in the West? Could we ever get past that cerebral cool and perceived cool.` It required this idea of comic-tragedy. Could you make those switches? Fine in Shakespeare - low comedy and then you die in five minutes.

- Baz Luhrmann

It takes a heap o` children to make a home that`s true, And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe; But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two, Why, that`s the sort of good old home for good old me and you

- Louis Untermeyer

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

- Martha Gellhorn

I pretend I`m one of the royal family when I`m in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

- Martin Short

I`d never trade my dad`s house, even for Buckingham Palace. I`m very sentimental about living with my parents.

- Rani Mukherjee

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I`m performing at The Palace Theatre.

- Deborah Cox

Having leveled my palace, don`t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

- Emily Brontë

It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzle Palace.

- James Bamford

We live in a jeans and T-shirt world but we all want to live in a palace, ... We`re not trying to attract the masses here. We`re looking for a special person who`s looking for something special.

- Bob Mackie

Detectives are working with Palace personnel and their phone provider in an attempt to identify the person who called in the threat,

- James Manning

Now I want to let my football do the talking and fire Crystal Palace back to the Premiership,

- Andy Johnson

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

- Ian Botham

The Queen`s intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone`s in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don`t know how she does it. And she sees everything.

- Prince Andrew

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

- Abner Louima

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

- Alan Kaufman

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

- Albert Gray

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there`s no palace till it`s built.

- Alessandro Tentori

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

- Alexander Cutler

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

- Amy Borger

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

- Andrea Bagley

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father`s palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

- Andrew Eakle

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man`s hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

- Andrew Rudnick

He called everyone into his office in the federal palace, ... And all the differences between the two sides were clarified.

- Andy Warren

When I called from the school, they said `You need to be here at the Salt Palace at 3:30 p.m.,`

- Anne Wallace

There will be peace when the dictator is out of that palace,

- Arthur Foulkes

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk

- Charles H. Spurgeon

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows

- Samuel Butler

"...Every day we go to the Palace`s Hospital to do dressings but not in the main building. In the garden there is a small house for the officers. Every day they bring there 6 lower ranks and Olga and I dress their wounds... When we finish doing it we go to the officers` where Mother and Anya dress them in turn..."

- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia