We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?""Yes, very like.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.