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I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

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.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.