Quotes About Celebration

The night before we began shooting 'Hooper,' I threw a $7,000 bash for the whole crew. I told them, 'Get as drunk as you want tonight, because for the next month and a half you're going to be working your tails off.' And it worked.

Gak encompasses so many things, like, 'Tonight is going to be a gak and a half.' If it's going to be a 'big gak,' it's going to be major.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated.

There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'

Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.

There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you know, Sammy Davis is going to be on 'All in the Family' tonight! Let's go check it out!' It was a big, big thing.

There are tons of black girls modeling, and each one is special.

There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a family, and it's rare that we can get a bunch of them together. We do once in a while.

Some of my friends really rock out: Matt and Kim, Diplo, when RuPaul was performing. Beyonce... there's tons of people I saw perform and was like, 'I just want my crowd to be awesome like this!'

We used to burn tons of crackers earlier, but when I realized the effects they have on our environment, I stopped burning them. We have been celebrating cracker-free Diwali for 15 years now.

I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.

There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

Tony night was probably the highlight of my time with 'Newsies' - heck, of my life for that matter!

I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

We can celebrate the speed at which LGBT equality has progressed, but we also have to acknowledge that it wasn't fast enough, because too many people didn't get to experience it. We can never be too impatient.

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs.

When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.

Social media is such a powerful tool and I would love it to be a hub of celebration rather than focusing on negativity.