Top 171 Tony Quotes

Seeing Jennifer Holliday from ‘Dreamgirls’ perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.

Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann – I’m a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

I’m like, how do you say, a little version of Tony Parker. But I must work hard to be as good as he is.

I would love to work with a young and upcoming coach somewhere and give him some experience. Something like Gerry Francis overseeing Tony Pulis.

I really respect the work and speeches of Tony Benn. He was a powerful speaker with a huge heart.

In particular, Stewart Lee and Tony Law, people who could have been really critical, were really supportive of me, and I’ll never forget that, and I want to be that person, so you have to work really hard to repress your natural jealousies and be one of those people.

Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn’t matter whether or not they’re X-Men characters or they’re Matt Murdock or they’re Tony Stark or they’re Peter Parker… That’s where it starts.

I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.

I can honestly say that I’ve never seen such a transference, from person to character, as I have with James ‘becoming’ Tony Soprano. Because he was, of course, nothing at all like Tony in real life.

I remembered, like, when ‘Not When My Daughter’ came out, I’m serious, I think dating for Iranian men became a lot harder. Dude’s name, Shahrokh – became Tony. Mehsud became Mike.

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just ‘watching’ the Tony Awards on TV – I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids.

My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I’m going, ‘I don’t like that.’ Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably – but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.

When I got to New York, all I wanted to do – or so I thought – was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.

I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I was in a ‘Tony Hawk’ game the next year!

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I’ve been a big admirer of Tony Dungy, and I’m sure a lot of people are, but he unfairly judged me, and that was disappointing to me.

Tony Judt’s remarkable ‘The Memory Chalet’ was written from the prison of mute immobility.

Tony Bradley is pretty good.

During my career, all my most fruitful victories have been on the opponents’ territories, so the support of the British fans to Tony Bellew doesn’t bother me a lot.

Clinton’s hands remain incredibly clean, don’t they, and Tony Blair’s smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

I’ve always wanted to make people laugh. It’s been my only ambition, ever since my dad introduced me to the genius of the great comedians: Tony Hancock, Woody Allen, people like that.

Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.

Tony Harrison is not on my level.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce – go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

Can you imagine, just talking and chatting with Tony Leung? I got to ask all my fan girl questions.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

Here are the facts: when Eric Bischoff came to work for WCW as a ‘clean up batter’ on the announce team working alongside Tony Schiavone, I came with a guaranteed contract.

You know, Kiss can always go on as long as Gene and Paul want it to go on. Static-X is the same way. We’re the two founding guys and the two vocalists and the driving force of the band. We can go on as long as we want, as long as the two of us are together. If I ever lost Tony, I’m sure I’d start something else.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don’t want to be a copy of anyone.

People who aren’t known for being artists do come in for criticism when they exhibit pictures. Paul McCartney, Tony Curtis, Mo Mowlam’s husband are all at it – and what’s to stop them? In my case, I don’t see the comedy and the art as separate at all – you’re just bending your creativity in a different direction.

Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair’s shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist’s luck.

On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn’t believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

I’m a big fan of Tony Blair. I’m not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

You’d have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn’t care about theater, who didn’t read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse’s choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is ‘Fosse hands’ and theater people know what you mean.

The person I used to watch growing up was Tony Bland. I just loved the way he played. He was a big guard, and I watched him a lot. He scored, he shared, he did a little bit of everything. I wanted to be a point guard, though it didn’t work out that way.

I like Tony Blair.

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I’d be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn’t have believed it.

I don’t need no Tony Robbins. I don’t need no chi. I’ve got the blood of Jesus Christ flowing in my veins.

I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.

When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don’t remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor to be recognized in that way.

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

I love to keep doing the voice, and I’ll do it as long as I’m able and as long as Tony sells cereal.

My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There’s no end to the tales of his exploits.

In 2011, I earned a Tony nomination for my role in ‘The Book of Mormon.’

One minute you’re up a mountain, the next you’re down a well. One minute you’re with Tony Blair, the next you’re with McFly. Ten years feels like two years when you’re in the ‘Blue Peter’ bubble.

I’d love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone – that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I’m happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.

There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said ‘Are you OK?’ and I said ‘Yes’, and he said ‘Well, what happened?’ and I said ‘I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.

My favorite – my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it’s like, you know, every scene, you know, pushes every button, is ‘True Romance’ directed by Tony Scott with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, and it’s a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic.