I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
Henry Louis Mencken
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I`ll be back in Chicago, doing live theater. (on what he plans to do after "CSI")
William Petersen
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I`ll be back in Chicago, doing live theater. (on what he plans to do after "CSI")
William Petersen
I wouldn`t live in Chicago cause it`s too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. (from her documentary, "In Bed with Madonna_qv" )
Madonna Ciccone
[His answer on 2 October 1979 to a woman who had just seen a special screening of Luna, La (1979) at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago] I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
Bernardo Bertolucci
I started out as a scrawny kid in Chicago, and even that was lucky. It got me to swimming. Then all the good breaks in the world happened-and kept on happening.
Johnny Weissmuller
In Chicago it`s really a case of the play`s the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for sp...
John C. Reilly
Did I want this role? That`s like saying did I want to wake up in the morning wanting to breath! on landing the part of Velma Kelly in Chicago.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
(On turning down the chance to play Richard Gere`s character in the Harvey Weinstein-produced film Chicago) "I thought I was too young for the role. You have some 34-year-old guy up against Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger and it becomes a differe...
Hugh Jackman
[On filming Batman films during the summer]: "I`m not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me."
Christian Bale
I`m not good enough to play for the Chicago Cubs, but I`m good enough to play for the World Champions. -- moments after helping the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees to win their first World Series; he had played his entire career with the Cu...
Mark Grace
[on Chicago] I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can . . . The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It`s one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I`m in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven
[on Chicago] I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can . . . The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It`s one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I`m in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven
[on Chicago] I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can . . . The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It`s one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I`m in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven
[on working with Lynda Carter on "Wonder Woman" (1976)] I met Lynda years before she did Wonder Woman, in Chicago. I forget the name of the club. At that time, she was working as a singer. She was a good-looking lady and sang well. And I never saw her aft...
Frank Gorshin
I kind of stopped the impact with my face. - on being knocked unconscious by a pane of plexiglass during a 22 October 1997 New York Rangers-Chicago Blackhawks game.
Janet Jones
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it`s a sport.
Dick Gregory
