When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don’t worry girls, I hit him.
Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.
I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.
After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.
It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.
