I’m not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.
You dirty, double-crossing rat.
I’m interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I’m sort of a performance rat.
Growing up in Vegas, over time you get to see shows like Tom Jones, Wayne Newton, I mean, The Rat Pack ran Vegas way, way back, and I’m a huge fan of that whole era and vibe.
I’ve been extremely lucky in that I’ve been a very successful model for a long time. So now I’m an actress and a mother. I’m a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be – I’ve wanted to act since I was 14 – and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.
I was so enthralled watching ‘Guys and Dolls’ and learning about the Rat Pack.
I’m not a studio rat. I do find sitting around playing the same song 12 times kind of tedious. I like to get in and get out.
Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
I’m a pack rat. There’s only a couple pairs of tights I’ve worn throughout my career that I don’t have. I save everything.
I’m only four weeks out from birth, so I still have a couple more weeks before I can work out – which is fine with me. I love the feeling of working out, but I’ve never been a gym rat, ever, so now, it’s all about taking in what I can if it’s good for the baby, because it all translates to her in a way.
I was a rink rat growing up. I was a goalie and my father was a busy father of five, so he would come when he could. When he did show up, I’d look up and there he would be.
My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.
My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn’t talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me.
I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn’t conquer it.
I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.
I’m not a tour rat. I’m not crazy about it.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
I don’t want to be in any rat race.
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
From getting good grades in school, to thinking about getting a good career and settling down, we all have been running a rat race. We always thought that we were doing it for ourselves but actually we were doing it for others. Like, I realized, I never had time for myself.
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is – and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn’t even give me her telephone number – and she wrote in her diary: ‘A funny little man asked me to marry him.’
The touring life wasn’t for me. I like to wake up in the same place most days. And I’m really into sitting behind a mixing console and listening to music all night and making music all night. I’m a studio rat.
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
I’m not much of a gym rat; I’d rather be running, but if it enables me to run faster, then I guess I can tough it out.
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