Rides Quotes

I was tired of playing the nice, clean-cut cowboy in "Rawhide" (1959), I wanted something earthier. Something different from the old-fashioned Western. You know: Hero rides in, very stalwart, with white hat, man`s beating a horse, hero jumps off, punches man, schoolmarm walks down the street, sees this situation going on, slight conflict with schoolmarm, but not too much. You know schoolmarm and hero will be together in exactly 10 more reels, if you care to sit around and wait, and you know the man beast horse with eventually get comeuppance from hero this guy bushwhacks him in reel nine. But (Per un pugno di dollari (1964)) was different; it definitely had satiric overtones. The hero was an enigmatic figure, and that worked within the context of this picture. In some films, he would be ludicrous. You can`t have a cartoon in the middle of a Renoir.

During my first year on "Melrose Place" (1992), there was a great deal of pressure from the network (Fox TV) for me to out myself as a straight man. The producers of "Melrose Place" (1992) kept telling me I had to say publicly that I was a breeder. They said too many people assumed I was gay. I know the truth of my life, so I didn`t have to play the network game. For three years, I was the spokesperson for the AIDS rides (yearly cycle-thons) in California. I was flattered that people assumed I was gay. To me, that was an affirmation that I was doing my job.

I couldn`t deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y`know?

I`m not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don`t really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

I love roller coasters. I don`t get a chance often, but I`ve gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

I`m not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I`ll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I`ll invite all my friends and just stay at home.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There`s a movie theater.

Yeah, but people aren`t comfortable with a woman who looks very masculine or rides a motorcycle or wears leather or has facial hair or has short hair.

A lot rides on the talks and what gets resolved on Monday and Thursday. It is our hope the talks will remain open and positive.

The frustrating events involving some Jockey Club charges concerning my conduct, which were dropped then re-formed, have dealt a fatal blow to my chances of securing more than a couple of regular rides this year and made my decision inevitable. I`m proud to have ridden winners all over the globe including most of Europe, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Singapore.

There have been a few exceptions and they got into really good rides, but if you`re gonna bring a guy in that`s not gonna be in a premier ride with a premier team, he`s gonna fail. . . . You can`t put a new driver and a new team together. It`s just not gonna work.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don`t isolate the family. We don`t make rides that say, `Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.`

I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn`t play Division I.

When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can`t quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

I don`t think there`s any way to describe how fun and exciting it was to fly with the Blue Angels. I`ve had some wild rides in my life, but this is by far the most exciting one ever.

They charge each person who rides, so if I ride with Rain`ee, we`ll each have to pay $2 each way. I don`t have that kind of money,

It`s been 50-plus fantastic years, ... One of the great rides in the history of sports broadcasting. But the world has changed.

It`s darker than you first perceive it to be, ... The American film company comes in and rides roughshod over people, but so do the other characters.

Don`t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Everything rides on Dec. 3. This fight is important because that`s where Bernard Hopkins will show that anyone who went through the minefield again with him is in trouble. I`ve beaten everyone who got into the ring with me a second time, and some of them I sent into retirement. I have to deal with the clouds and the storm. You think you got me down and I rise up.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.