Rhys Darby Quotes

New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.

Everyone loves to feast their eyes on Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

My look is always glitzy for New Year's Eve, even if I am at home.

New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.

New Year's Eve is not about having a big party for me. It's a time of reflection, and I often go on spiritual retreats.

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

The festival of Kalends [the new year] is celebrated everywhere as far as the limits of the Roman Empire extended….Everywhere may be seen carousels and well-laden tables. Luxurious abundance is found in the houses of the rich. But also in the houses of the poor better food than usual is put upon the table. The impulse to spend seizes everyone …. People are not only generous towards themselves but also towards their fellow men. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides…. The Kalends festival banishes all that is connected with toil and allows men to give themselves up to undisturbed enjoyment.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

I hate New Year's Eve.

When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you're rich.

Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'

For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.