Richard Corliss Quotes

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

The longer I stay in the States, the more I understand how important it is to smile and seem like a nice guy. Like Ronald Reagan. Your image seems to count more than what you do.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society.

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

I love Snooki. She's a pickle sucker!

Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her...and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her.

There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.