Jon Bon Jovi's Quotes

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I like progress but I hate change.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I really only have a few friends.

I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

Modelling killed me.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.