Michael Quotes

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

The first time I met Michael, we saw each other on a TV show.

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.