Ahmad Jamal

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

Anthony Weiner’s alter ego is a Bolivian action hero slash porn star. ‘Danger… is my user name.’

My first kiss was when I was 12.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.

I think they called it ‘sucking up’ to begin with. They finally had to come up with another name.

An iPhone would be a more coherent president of the United States.

It sounds lame, but I was really concentrating on this job. It was my first American thing so I was pretty focused. I went to Portland for two months before we starting shooting, and I just didn’t talk to anybody for ages during the beginning of the shoot. I never went out, but I kind of broke down half way through. I was like, ‘Okay, people are starting to think that I’m actually out of my mind now.

I usually don’t listen back to the shows but I finally did. Now I know the one thing that’s gonna make it even better than it already is!

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

It really bothers me when people don’t use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Definitely tougher to be vulnerable. As a woman in the industry, you try so hard to remain strong and to not let your guard down. And once you let the walls down and let people see that you were a regular person who has feelings, sometimes people take advantage of that. I think that applies for everyone. It’s always a little bit nerve-racking to just completely let your guard down because you just don’t know if people are going to appreciate it. And then if they don’t appreciate it, you can feel like you did it in vain.

I found myself a sophisticated, educated American. He’s not an actor. He’s traveled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of Americans. He’s very cultured, but he’s all man.

I’m having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I’ll have a family, because I don’t want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it’s not defining who I am.

[on Disney banning junk food adverts] I think when you can get an occupant of the White House behind you, particularly one as formidable and effective and passionate as Mrs. Obama, that can’t hurt