Latest Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes from Interviews

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• At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

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  Mother, Dad, Judging

• To be a good kisser start slow, definitely ramp into it and remember somebody's on the other side of your mouth!

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  Remember

• I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

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  Musician, Done

• I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going up steps, and in front of them when they're going down steps. As chauvinistic as that may sound, it's in my bones.

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  Men, Thinking, Laughing

• Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

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  Girl, Boys, World

• As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. I don't have to think, What can I do to spice up my marriage? Because as time goes on, she changes, I change. I'm not married to the same girl I met by the pool. I love this woman more than I loved the person I married, but just in a different way.

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  Girl, Thinking, Different

• I never dated much. I dated one girl before my wife, and that was it.

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  Girl, Wife, My Wife

• You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

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  Figures, Uncharted, Courses

  Source: www.patheos.com

• The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.

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  Skills, People, Reason

  Source: www.patheos.com

• I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.

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  Broadway, Conducting

  Source: www.patheos.com

• [Frank Sinatra] was an incredible artist, the best at what he did, but it never occurred to me to model my career after what he did. There was no one I modeled my career after because there was no one else who did what I did.

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  Artist, Careers, Incredibles

  Source: www.patheos.com

• I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.

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  Careers, Mind, Different

  Source: www.patheos.com

• I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I played. People started recognizing my name and face and it helped sell bigger venues. I had a bigger spotlight and I had to live up to it but I thrived under that challenge. It expedited the creative process. If I was on stage in front of 300 people instead of 30, I had to work harder at my performances because I had a greater responsibility. It was very exciting, but creative too.

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  Couple, Responsibility, Hard Work

  Source: www.patheos.com

• Many people in and out of showbiz live their lives in different ways. I try to be the best I can be.

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  People, Trying, Way

  Source: www.patheos.com

• If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

• All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them

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  Worry, My Family, Can Do

  Source: www.patheos.com

• I wake up everyday and try to be the best husband, father and entertainer I can be. I'm no different offstage or talking to you or onstage than I am going to dinner with my family. It's all the same place and I apply the same values to all I do. It works for me.

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  Husband, Father, Talking

  Source: www.patheos.com

• If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.

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  Thinking, Quality, Lines

  Source: www.patheos.com

• All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

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  Decision, Want, Praying

  Source: www.patheos.com

• I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.

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  Husband, Dad, Struggle

• As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

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  Pieces, Painting, Evolve

  "Hello, Harry Connick Jr.!". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. November 4, 2007.

• I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

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  My Best Friend, Married, Happened

• [Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.

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  Feel Better, Thinking, Giving

• Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.

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  Moving, Grace, Dignity

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. September 14, 2014.

• No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

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  Country, Couple, Artist

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". collider.com. September 14, 2014.