I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that dont know when to come down. – Mo Rocca
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely. – Frank McCourt
I was at the vice presidents Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day. – Bradley Whitford
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I dont know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. – Meghan ORourke
Im going to take the kids away over Christmas but I dont, Ive written 14 musicals now, I dont want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen – classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queens Christmas Day broadcast. – Alastair Campbell
My parents still treat Christmas like Im thirteen years old. – Mike Shinoda
I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you dont want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellens house on the first movie and then I didnt see him again until the premiere. – Rebecca Romijn
My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when its snowing outside. – David Hasselhoff
And of course theres so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because its obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around. – Ashley Judd
Its hard and sometimes its scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me. – Luke Perry
I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybodys presents – everybodys – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. – Tommy Hilfiger
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and theres no way Id do anything to undermine that belief. – Carol Ann Duffy
For a Jewish guy, Ive recorded a lot of Christmas albums. – Barry Manilow
First of all, Ive been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didnt write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful. – Barry Manilow
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: Im waiting to win the lottery. Im waiting to fall in love. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came. – Ian Mckellen
Its more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and its exactly what you want. Its a great feeling, and theres nothing like it. – Zack Snyder
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everythings dark, dingy – what a great time for a movie! – John Hughes
A lot of sequins for New Years! Red, green, white – I fail at all of that because Im always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots. – Ashley Benson
Id like to do a Christmas album. Ive never done a Christmas album. – Tanya Tucker
