Richard Petty

If you ain’t trying to cheat a little, you ain’t likely to win much.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Cats know, comin’ out of four, they better be standin’ on it, else they’ll be standin’ in it.

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

I see two or three cars that are really good, but they’re not dominant. There’s usually somebody who’s got one that’s a little bit better than everybody.

“Success in life is knowing the difference between ham and eggs; the chicken’s involved, the pig is committed.”

Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore – except your President (just kidding, of course)!

No matter how tired I am, whenever I see you guys, my energy goes to a billion.

All I could think about was, ‘I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.’

Boys love being bossed around by me tho…

The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.

I picked up a guitar and found it very difficult and I sort of graduated to drums because I found them very easy – I suppose it was a case of natural aptitude. Mitch Mitchell was my role model at the time, and I still think listening to Mitch Mitchell, especially the early stuff with Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix), is just fantastic.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.

Last year in L.A. county 150 out of 151 incumbents ran unopposed. And come on. They could at least go through the motions of pretending there was another candidate. Just throw a robe on a pelican and tape a gavel to his wing. Or – I’ll tell you what – you’re in L.A. Just pretend you’re considering Blake Lively for the job. Movie studios do that all the time.

I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

[on her parents] They’re very harsh critics and they’ve often said to me: “That was shit, you were crap’, but this is the first time (after he saw her as “Amy Foster” on Swept from the Sea) my father said to me: ‘I think one day you’ll be a good actress”!

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

I’m really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I’m terrified of crossing streets. I’m also very accident-prone…I think people aim for me.

D.C. went under federal control in 1801 and it wasn’t until the 1960s that D.C.’s then three quarters of a million citizens, mostly African American, were given even the most basic electoral rights … With that level of restriction the mayor of D.C. gets to run the city the way a school council president gets to run her high school.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone’s eye out, I would laugh. And then I’d say, ‘I’m sorry, I really do feel bad,’ but then I’m on the floor rolling.