Lionel Quotes

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. (Lillian Gish)
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. View quote
Quincy Jones
I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle. View quote
Danny McBride
Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. View quote
Guy Oseary
From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile. View quote
Lara Pulver
Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew. View quote
Ron Moody
People say 'Ooh, doesn't Lionel Blair look good for his age?' Well, no, not really – not unless he's about five hundred. Otherwise he looks like nothing more than an elaborately coiffured scrotum. View quote
Linda Smith
The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.' View quote
Lionel Richie
[In 1932, Lionel Robbins declared economics ‘the science of choice' (Robbins 1932). In the same year, when students at the University of Chicago opened their social sciences course reader, they read Knight's response:] Such definitions come too near to saying that economics is the science of things generally, of everything that men are for practical reasons interested in. Such a definition is useless and misleading. View quote
Frank Knight
Lionel: Mrs. Simpson, don't you worry. I watched Matlock in a bar last night; the sound wasn't on, but I think I got the gist of it. View quote
Phil Hartman
Lionel: And as for your case, don't you worry. I've argued in front of every judge in the state. Often as a lawyer. (Phil Hartman)
Shortly after 9/11 a French spokesman for the activist group ATTAC quoted the adage: "He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind." French prime minister Lionel Jospin seemed to be pointing in this direction when he asked, "What lesson are the Americans going to draw from what has happened?" The lesson, Jospin indicated, should be for the U.S. to moderate her unilateralism. For Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops' Conference, the lesson to be drawn from terrorism was that "the West must not seek to dominate the rest of the world." View quote
Jean-François Revel
Literary critics like Lionel Trilling ... demand that our novels illuminate the manners and morals of prevailing society. Professor Trilling is right, because otherwise what use are they for us? But he is wrong-headed, because he does not see that the burden of proof is not on the artist but on our society. If such convenient criticism of prevalent life does not get to be written, it is likely that the prevailing society is not inspiring enough; its humanity is not great enough, it does not have enough future, to be worth the novelist's trouble. View quote
Paul Goodman
Queen Victoria on promotion of Lionel Rothschild to peerage: "It is not only the feeling, of which she cannot divest herself, against making a person of the Jewish religion, a Peer; but she cannot think that one who owes his great wealth to contracts with foreign Governments for Loans, or to successful speculation on the Stock Exchange, can fairly claim a British Peerage. However high Sir L. Rothschild may stand personally in public estimation, this seems to her not less a species of gambling because it is on a gigantic scale and far removed from that legitimate trading which she delights to honour, in which men have raised themselves by patient industry and unswerving probity to positions of wealth and influence." View quote
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything. View quote
Brian McKnight
I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny. View quote
Jeffrey Osborne
As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie. View quote
Luke Bryan
I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa. View quote
Virat Kohli
Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. View quote
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises. View quote
Lionel Richie
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. (Evander Holyfield)
Lionel: Well, I didn't win. Here's your pizza. Marge: But we did win. Lionel: That's okay. The box is empty. View quote
Phil Hartman
Lionel: I've been getting a lot of calls about you, Marge. People just love your no-pressure approach. Marge: Well, you know what we say: the right house for the right person. Lionel: I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The right house is the house that's for sale. And the right person is anyone. View quote
Phil Hartman
Lionel: Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider. Marge: Is that bad? Lionel: Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog. Marge: You did? Lionel: Yeah...if you replace the word "kinda" with "repeatedly" and the word "dog" with "son"... View quote
Phil Hartman
Lionel Messi is awesome. View quote
Zlatan Ibrahimović