I went to West Brom, and I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, and Tony Pulis was a very physically-demanding manager, and I couldn’t get around the pitch like he wanted, so I moved on.
When I die, it’s going to read, ‘Game Show Fixture Passes Away.’ Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn’t bother me.
Italian men age very well. That’s what I’ve learned from Tony Danza.
There’s something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards… We’re dorks being silly up there.
I will say that I wasn’t susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.
I didn’t even drink until I was in college. While other people were out partying, I’d be home watching the Tony Awards and Bob Fosse movies… I so badly wanted to be part of the club.
I think I’m so old I’m in. We call it the ‘Tony Bennett Syndrome.’ For some reason, young people think I’m cool.
I’m not a political thinker, but I’ve just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.
Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett… their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there’s a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don’t really mind.
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I’ve learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.
Everything that I am and everything that I have, I owe to Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Liam Brady, David Court, Bob Arber, Steve Bould, Neil Banfield, Mike Salmon, Tony Roberts, Gerry Peyton, Pat Rice, and many others. Words can’t describe my gratitude to these people and love for this club.
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
My son, Tony Vincent, is a stuntman. He doubles for Jim Caviezel on ‘Person of Interest.’ He works really hard.
It’s definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people’s houses and watching play me as I walk in – that’s actually happened a few times and that’s so weird. It’s like, ‘Dude, you’re playing me right now.’ It was too weird.
There’s a reason Tony Stark makes fun of ‘Thor,’ and mentions ‘Shakespeare’ in the park in ‘The Avengers.’ It’s great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is emphatically not, as is sometimes argued, simply a function of Tony Blair’s personal ambition. The shift towards a more presidential style was already visible under Margaret Thatcher.
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that’s what we don’t want to be. We don’t want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, ‘Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?’ until I realized that’s exactly what he was thinking.
When Michael Bay called me, I’d worked with him before on ‘The Rock,’ and he called me and said, ‘Tony, I might have something for you.’ I said, ‘Okay, you haven’t called me in ten years!’ He said, ‘I’ve been busy!’ I said, ‘I’ve been busy too Michael, glad we could make our schedules match!’
These guys talk when I’m injured, but when I’m healthy, where are these guys? Tony or Conor, it doesn’t matter. Or maybe they’re going to fight it each other? It doesn’t matter.
All kids love bikes and cars. But there was a guy in my local village, Tony, who gave me a go on a bike. My first proper motorbike was when I was about 12, but I’d ridden on his and he was the one who really got me into bikes.
It’s really hard to go into a creative process and not think, ‘I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.’
If a top four job came along, I don’t think people will look at Tony Pulis to do that.
When my marriage broke up… I had just put on 45 pounds for my ‘Shall We Dance?’ character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.
For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.
I was lucky enough to have Tony Cottee when I was at Leicester, who was a senior pro at the time and would give me advice on certain things and it does help.
‘Only Fools and Horses’ was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. ‘Hartbeat with Tony Hart’ and ‘Rolf’s Cartoon Club’ were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.
Tony Stark in ‘Iron Man’ helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown’s gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
We have a unique relationship with the U.K., Great Britain. Tony Blair has been a steadfast spokesman for Britain, and also for the joint interests that we share.
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
I did ‘Pines,’ and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in ‘Brooklyn,’ and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process.
In a way I’m almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
I think anything Tony Kaye would’ve done would’ve been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.
I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
Tony is just a good, wholesome character.
I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world… they just don’t know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard – I’ve learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.
Too many of Montana’s own have fallen in the line of duty fighting radical Islamic terrorists, like 31-year-old husband and father of four, Blackfeet warrior Army Corporal Tony ‘Many Hides’ of Great Falls.
People ask, ‘Should I call you Sir Hopkins?’ But I say, ‘No. Call me Tony,’ because it’s too much of a lift-up.
I’m thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I’ve got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony – and my daughter Grammy.
A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable.
Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered.
In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in ‘West Side Story’ when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved ‘West Side Story’ so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.
My theory is if Tony Williams can sing, and if Kanye West can sing, so can I! So I try!
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he’s just such a nice guy. Tony’s an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating.
I love the Restoration. It’s a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
The part in ‘Taxi’ was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.
Everybody remembers Tony Hawk’s 900 at X Games V in 1999. That was an iconic trick that went beyond the sport and still makes highlight reels.
I’m 51; I’m younger than Tony Blair. I don’t have a dicky heart; I’m up like a broom handle in the morning. I don’t drink or gamble – I’m still a catch.
Growing up as a kid, I watched Jeremy Shockey… Tony Gonzalez… Antonio Gates. I looked up to them. I watched what they did to be successful.
I’ve had plenty of arguments in Memphis with Tony Allen, Marc Gasol, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, we all go through that spell, you ride with each other for so many years, you have a situation where you go at one another to push each other. It’s normal in basketball, normal in life. It’s just so public in this game.
