The only successful person in the world is Bing Crosby. I'm sure he'll be working tomorrow, and that's success.
“The only successful person in the world is Bing Crosby. I'm sure he'll be working tomorrow, and that's success.”
— Elaine May · Bing
The World Motivation
The only successful person in the world is Bing Crosby. I'm sure he'll be working tomorrow, and that's success.
“The only successful person in the world is Bing Crosby. I'm sure he'll be working tomorrow, and that's success.”
— Elaine May · Bing
The only successful person in the world is Bing Crosby. I'm sure he'll be working tomorrow, and that's success.
The nice thing is to make an audience laugh and laugh and laugh and shudder later.
You know, when I was very young, I thought it didn't matter what happened to me when I died, so long as my work was immortal. As I age, I think, Well, perhaps if I had to trade dying right now and being immortal with just living on, I would choose living on. I never thought I would say that. I feel it's so unethical and wrong.
The only safe thing is to take a chance.
I feel in opposition to almost everything.
By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.
Bing's first film, 'Minding the Gap,' means a lot to me. I see a lot of movies, but it's a uniquely beautiful movie to me that does more than just being a great movie.
Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!