Night Quotes

"The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night"

"You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club"

David Dinkins, Politician

"The night cometh when no man can work"

Sheldon Jackson, Politician

"The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy"

Justin Bieber, Musician

"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer"

Sharon Osbourne, Entertainer

"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby"

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

"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"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity"

William Petersen, Actor

"New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning"

Robert Asprin, Author

"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night"

William H. Macy, Actor

"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation"

Michael York, Actor

"I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night"

Richard Griffiths, Actor

"In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night"

Richard H. Davis

"Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day"

Malcolm De Chazal, Writer

"By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live"

Sarah Silverman, Comedian

"We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night"

Peter Tork, Musician

"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book"

Robert Redford, Actor

"It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing"

Paul Kane, Writer

"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I wasn't angry the night I shot him"

Mark David Chapman, Criminal

"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl"

Sarah Zettel, Author

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