Jackie Quotes

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.