Stern Quotes

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"I actually don`t meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I`m from another planet." - on turning 30, to the German magazine Stern

- Claudia Schiffer

(2005 Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Director) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. I`d like to thank my wife, who is my best pal down here. And my mother, who was here with me in 1993. She was only 84 then. But she`s here with me again tonight. And she just -- so, at 96, I`m thanking her for her genes. It was a wonderful adventure. It takes a -- to make a picture in 37 days, it takes a well-oiled machine. And that well-oiled machine is the crew -- the cast, of course, you`ve met a lot of them. But there`s still Margo and Anthony and Michael and Mike and Jay and everybody else who was so fabulous in this cast. And the crew, Campanelli. Billy Coe and, of course, Tom Stern, who is fantastic. And Henry Bumstead, the great Henry Bumstead who is the head of our crack geriatrics team. And Henry and Jack Taylor, and Dick Goddard (Richard C. Goddard), all those guys. Walt and everybody. I can`t think of everybody right now. I`m drawing a blank right now. But, Warren, you were right. And thank you, for your confidence earlier in the evening. I`m just lucky to be here. Lucky to be still working. And I watched Sidney Lumet, who is 80, and I figure, "I`m just a kid. I`ll just -- I`ve got a lot of stuff to do yet." So thank you all very much. Appreciate it.

- Clint Eastwood

"Oh, directors want me to be really stern sometimes. They like that quality in a woman. They find it compelling."

- Charlotte Rampling

Well, we are doppelgangers. - on that Howard Stern nearly played Scarecrow, Cillian`s role in Batman Begins (2005), in an early attempted adaptation.

- Cillian Murphy

I`m not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me --about David Grohl in a Howard Stern interview.

- Courtney Love

(When asked by Howard Stern if he has had oral sex) "No! that`s not a place for a young woman`s face to be."

- Gary Coleman

(2005 Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Actress in a Leading Role) "I don`t know what I did in this life to deserve all this. I`m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen, let alone be nominated. And a working actor, for that matter. And now, this. I thank the Academy. I`m eternally grateful for this great honor. I would also like to acknowledge my fellow nominees, Annette, Imelda, Kate, and Catalina, your work inspires me beyond words. I am going to start by thanking my husband because I`d like to think I learned from past mistakes. Chad, you`re my everything. Thank you for your support. It means the world. I would never be standing here if it weren`t for the -- each and every one of the brilliant people I had surrounding me, supporting me and believing in me. Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, thank you for sending me this most marvelous script. You will never know how grateful I am. Paul Haggis, for writing this beautiful script. Our other producers extraordinaire: Albert S. Ruddy (Al Ruddy), Clint, Rob Lorenz (Robert Lorenz). Phyllis Huffman, our casting director. My trainers, Grant Roberts and Hector Roca, you pushed me further than I ever thought I could push myself up to that last pound, actually to that last ounce. I thank you. My sparring partners who were so patient. And everyone at Gleason`s. Well, the ever-amazing Morgan Freeman. Tom Stern, our cinematographer, you are brilliant. Joel Cox, our editor, you`re amazing. You know? I`m going to thank my mom for believing in me from the beginning. My dad, for his support. My agents, Josh Lieberman, Tony Lipp, Kelly Tiffan, John Campisi. Jason Weinberg, my manager (You can`t do that. I haven`t gotten to Clint yet! I saved him for the end) Karl Austen (Karl R. Austen), Jeff Bernstein, my lawyers. And then Clint. Clint Eastwood. Thank you for allowing me to go on this journey with you. Thank you for believing in me. You`re my "macushla" Thank you. Warner brothers, as well. And you know what? Wait! Troy Nankin, my best friend and publicist. Thank you!"

- Hilary Swank

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive intrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?

- Marilyn Monroe

To get out of getting up at 5 in the morning, I`m gonna do Howard Stern next week. This time I`m ready. I`ve got some good comebacks.

- Michelle Rodriguez

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.

- Rosanna Arquette

The God`s honest truth is that I`m probably funnier, but he`s smarter. Here`s the thing about Stern -- he`s really a smart guy. He`s nutty. He`s outrageous. He`s all those things, but he`s also a very smart guy.

- Adam Carolla

The seven marvels that best represent man`s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern`s Private Parts to come in No. 1.

- Jon Stewart

There is a lot of sadness in my past life. My father beat me. It was difficult to take being beaten and then going on stage. He was strict; very hard and stern.

- Michael Jackson

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

- Shaquille O'Neal

I have dark brown hair. I`ve also got a very stern look, and with that colour I would look very gloomy. Blonde looked a lot fresher.

- Kim Wilde

Stern was not fully fit when he came to us and we are trying to get him match fit,

- Phil Brown

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied

- Louis Untermeyer

I don`t blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn`t put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don`t want to play.

- Oscar Robertson

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn`t the greatest looking guy in the world.

- Artie Lange

I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

- Artie Lange

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

- Artie Lange

I have played a couple of nice moms in my career (think Jennifer Grey`s mom in the classic film Dirty Dancing) but, in my opinion, playing nice is a complete bore! The nastier they are the more fun they are (as in Howard Stern`s mom in Private Parts, perhaps?).

- Kelly Bishop

He is irreplaceable. Stern is one of a kind, among the very, very small handful of people that were THE broadcasters of the 20th century ? and carrying into the 21st.

- Michael Harrison

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After hearing such stern words from the judge, I really thought it would have been 10 years.

- Nancy Anderson

Stern quotes the law, and that`s correct. But obviously, if the governor of the state recommends somebody, we`d give that strong consideration.

- John Hoffman

Stern`s finish against Leicester was top drawer and since he has been back from Derby he has been like a breath of fresh air.

- Richard Shaw

If one of the girls came to me before she had finished high school and announced that she had intended to marry a boy with no job and little education, I`d forbid it - just like a stern father in a melodrama. - Photoplay, October 1962

- Robert Conrad

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

- Abbie Bates

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

- Al Sinclair

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

- Alex DeCroce

I love thee Peter`s own creation/I love thy stern and comely face.

- Andy Passo

We will not air Howard Stern on Clear Channel stations until we are assured that his show will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting,

- Art Sedlacek

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton