Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes

Michael Jackson is the most awesome person who ever walked onstage. He was just incredible.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.

My hero is Michael Jackson. Was and continues to be. He's amazing. When I was growing up, it was the time of 'Thriller' and 'Bad.' I'd come home from school and put on the vinyls. I'd put on a white V-neck T-shirt and roll back the carpet and dance for hours. I'd moonwalk and do the spins.

I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.

It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.

I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.

I love, love, love Michael Jackson.

I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'

It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.