Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Connick, Jr. - Page 2

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I like my life.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I'm not a big goal guy.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

I've spent hours playing video games.

You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

I don't want to say the same lines every night.

I never dated much.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going up steps, and in front of them when they're going down steps. As chauvinistic as that may sound, it's in my bones.

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

To be a good kisser start slow, definitely ramp into it and remember somebody's on the other side of your mouth!

If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do everything within my power to make that happen and to help in any way I can to ease the suffering of my city, my people!

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.

All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

I never dated much. I dated one girl before my wife, and that was it.

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We're playing the field right now.

I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny.

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.

[Frank Sinatra] was an incredible artist, the best at what he did, but it never occurred to me to model my career after what he did. There was no one I modeled my career after because there was no one else who did what I did.

I'm looking at [my daughter] right now. To think that I am her dad is the greatest honor in the world. She's an amazing kid. We have a great relationship and she is one of my closest friends. I seek her advice. I like to know what she thinks about things, and she's helped me through some really tough times. I just look forward to years of developing that relationship.

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

[Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.

I’m really boring, man. Like, I’m really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it’s pretty dull. But that’s what I like.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

With imagination, I'll get there.

They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.

I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I played. People started recognizing my name and face and it helped sell bigger venues. I had a bigger spotlight and I had to live up to it but I thrived under that challenge. It expedited the creative process. If I was on stage in front of 300 people instead of 30, I had to work harder at my performances because I had a greater responsibility. It was very exciting, but creative too.

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.