Richard Petty

If guys don’t respect themselves, they don’t respect other people. That’s times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don’t take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Every race is a chapter. Those are two important races. Who knows what Sunday will bring?

You haven’t been around here long, have you.

I didn’t miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

That’s exactly what Dale Sr. was going to do. It was, ‘When I quit, I’ve got somewhere to go. I’ve spent my money, made my name. This is where I want to be.’ Junior is in the same suit.

I don’t know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

The reason there weren’t any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn’t have the money to take those kind of classes.

You haven’t been around here long, have you.

[on acting] Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

The fans are just as crazy. because we have the young fans and the old fans now, so it’s more like double-trouble for us.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

I’m quite sarcastic, and I’m funny, but not kind of funny. It’s a weird funny, and some people don’t get me, and some people do.

I love Obama. I’m sure we’ll hang out, go to Richard Branson’s island. It’ll be cool.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I sometimes do worry that actors are people’s role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things just get paid nothing. And they put us on the cover of magazines. They should be our heroes. I find it all a bit dubious.

I’m my worst critic and I always want to give people something better than I gave them before.

Ballet: Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

I love artists who take risks-I think they inspire everybody else about horrible situations that no one wants to discuss.

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.