Harry Connick, Jr.

Sourced

• I was in such a state while I was recovering from this surgery and the pain medication that I was on sort of took all the inhibitions out that I may have had. I found that I was ordering things online; big boxes of stuff would arrive at my house.http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21263069.shtml
  • Late Show with David Letterman TV interview, February 2007

• I started making movies when I was 20. I started playing piano when I was about 3 years old, so I'm probably a musician first. But when I'm working on a movie, as an actor, I'm an actor - 100 percent. And when I'm on tour, I'm a musician 100 percent.http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200702/?pg=30
  • The Costco Connection magazine interview, February 2007

• New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.http://www.sonybmg.com.au/news/details.do?newsId=20030829004111
  • Sony press release, January 2007

• [When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We’re playing the field right now.http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2006/11/happily_ever_after_catherine_a.html
  • ExtraTV interview, November 2006

Unsourced

• For me, to receive this... ugly ass award. No, it's really quite beautiful.
  • Connick receives a Theatre world award for his role in The Pajama Game on Broadway, June 2006.

From films

• Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!
  • As "Cpt. Jimmy Wilder" in Independence Day

• Captain Jimmy Wilder: Check me out, Stevie. I'm gonna try something.
  Captain Steven Hiller: Don't do nothin' stupid over there.
  Captain Jimmy Wilder: You know me.
  Captain Steven Hiller: That's what I'm talkin' about.
  • As "Cpt. Jimmy Wilder" in Independence Day

• Captain Jimmy Wilder: [Impersonating Rev. Jesse Jackson] Why we are on this particular mission, we'll never know. But I do know, here today, that the Black Knights will emerge victorious once again.
  Unknown Pilot: Amen, man.
  Captain Steven Hiller: Amen, Reverend.
  • As "Cpt. Jimmy Wilder" in Independence Day

About Connick

• Harry is a true musician. He has a massive amount of information that he's dealing with, so he is very comfortable wherever a song goes. Great music is like leaping off a cliff, but some musicians will only go to the precipice. Harry just jumps, which is why playing with him is very liberating.http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news_print.php?id=7903
  • Branford Marsalis