Jack Quotes

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.