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Michael Jackson | |
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Anyone who wants to know the real Michael Jackson, listen to the song 'Childhood'. That is the most sincere song I've ever wrote.
People say I'm not okay, 'cause I love such elementary things... it's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known...
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Movie/TV title: The Wiz
Character name: Scarecrow
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Scarecrow: Stay right there.
Tinman: [stuck underneath a big heavy round tin-woman] Don't worry, I wasn't planning any promenades.
The Munchkins: [after the Witch is killed, the Munchkins turn from graffiti back into children] Two, 4, 6, 8! Who do we appreciate?
Dorothy: [terrified] No! No!
Scarecrow: [after Tinman's crying] He rusted himself cryin'.
Aunt Em: Girl, do you know that you're 24 years old, and you've never been south of 125th Street? Well, you haven't!
Aunt Em: Oh, here we go again. You get me so worked up that I'm beginning to sound like a Jewish mother.
Scarecrow: Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent!
Cheetah, Head of the Flying Monkeys: [receiving orders from Evillene] White bread or wheat?
Scarecrow: Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share.
Dorothy: That's beautiful! Who said that?
Scarecrow: [modestly] I did.
Scarecrow: Barnum said there's a sucker born every minute.
Tinman: I was there when he said it, but I never thought I'd be one of them.
Scarecrow: I'll think about you all the time, Dorothy!
Tinman: And I'll miss you... every day. Even if I had to go back to that junk pile... even as teeny's seat cushion... I wouldn't mind... because I have known... real love.
[cries]
Dorothy: Aww... don't rust yourself now.
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Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
I love E. T. 'cos it reminds me of me. Someone from another world coming down and you becoming friends with them and this person is, like, 800 years old and he's filling you with all kinds of wisdom and he can teach you to fly. That whole fantasy thing which I think is great. I mean, who don't wanna fly?
My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
Michael Jackson
Speech at Oxford Union, on his children's Bill of Rights
And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Michael Jackson
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael Jackson
Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
Michael Jackson on Neverland
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
Michael Jackson
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
Michael Jackson
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
Michael Jackson
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
Michael Jackson
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
Michael Jackson on Neverland
I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael Jackson
I remember one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson on touring with the Jackson Five
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
Michael Jackson
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Michael Jackson
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
Michael Jackson
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
Michael Jackson
I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
Michael Jackson
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Michael Jackson
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson
Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
Michael Jackson
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson
Me and Janet really are two different people.
Michael Jackson
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Michael Jackson
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
Michael Jackson
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson
Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.
Michael Jackson
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
Michael Jackson
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
Michael Jackson
Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
Michael Jackson
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson
You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson
I'll always be Peter Pan in my heart.
Michael Jackson
People think they know me, but they don't. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.
Michael Jackson
I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you from the bottom of my heart. I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I am completely, completely innocent. But please know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak.
"Marlon Brando has been pushing. He's a wonderful man. He's a god. He wants a lot of money. He wants to get things done right now." - On a video about acting which he was planning to make with Brando in 2001
Elizabeth Taylor is a warm cuddly blanket that I love to snuggle up to and cover myself with. I can confide in her and trust her. She's Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, the Queen of England, and Wendy.
I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be told. Martin Bashir persuaded me to trust him that his would be an honest and fair portrayal of my life and told me that he was the man that turned Diana's life around. I am surprised that a professional journalist would compromise his integrity by deceiving me in this way. Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before; that someone, who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair programme. Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. I also want to thank my fans around the world for the overwhelming number of messages of support that I have received, particularly from Great Britain, where people have e-mailed me and said how appalled they were by the Bashir film. Their love and support has touched me greatly.
I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
I'm a visionary and a creative person. God blessed me with certain talents. I hate to use an analogy, but Walt Disney was creative but not good with business. His brother Roy handled the books. He loved creating family-oriented entertainment and so do I. I feel that was a gift and I have that gift also. I'm very honored to have been chosen.
"When I saw him move I was mesmerized. I've never seen a performer perform like James Brown and right then and there I knew that that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
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| Quotes About Michael Jackson | Who: Whitney Houston:
Quote: He was my friend. He was one of the reasons I got into the music business. He taught me. He laughed with me. He paved the way for African American artists to be played on MTV was huge.
Who: Corey Feldman
Quote: He was my idol, he was my role model, he was someont to cry to when my childhood was unbearable, he was a brother, a dear friend.
Who: Lisa Minnelli
Quote: He was a kind, genuine and wonderful man. He was also one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived. I loved him very much and I will miss him every remaining day of my life.
Who: Steven Spielberg
Quote: Just as there will never be another Fred Astaire or Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley, there will never be anyone comparable to Michael Jackson. His talent, his wonderment, made him legendary.
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