Fan Favorite Quotes

This section is a list of YOUR favorite quotes, either said by Michael or by another celebrity about Michael. If you have one you'd like to add, please e-mail it to me by clicking on the icon at the bottom of the page. Please include who said it (if it wasn't said by Michael) and where the quote is from. Thanx for your contributions!!! Keep Michaeling!

"Do it an' yo' dead"--said by MJ on Moonwalker (submitted by Donna and Hoju)

"I hope this finally puts to rest another rumor that has been in the press for too many years. Me and Janet really are two different people."--said by MJ when accepting the Legend Grammy Award in 1993 (submitted by Donna and Hoju)

"In the last month, I went from 'Where is he?' to 'Here he is again.'"--said by MJ when accepting the Legend Grammy Award in 1993 (submitted by Donna)

"You wouldn't believe the amounts of mail that I get."--said by MJ on the Diane Sawyer interview (submitted by Danielle)

"I'll say 'Go, and do it better than I did.'"--said by MJ when Barbara Walters asked what he would say if Prince wants to go into entertainment (submitted by Danielle)

"Yeah, you were scared."--MJ from the Thriller video (submitted by Danielle)

"What's the problem? C'mon, I'll take you home."--MJ in the Thriller video (submitted by Danielle)

"I'm sorry, but I gotta go"--MJ in Moonwalker (submitted by Danielle)

"We're gonna give you the old songs, the old fashioned way"--MJ during his Dangerous concert (submitted by Danielle)

"Thou shalt honour all crows...Thout shalt stop readin' all pieces of paper and literature...Thou shalt never, ever, get off'a this here pole..."--From 'The Wiz' (submitted by Hoju)

"I like all our fans, even the ones who keep calling me 'cute'. But I'm getting bigger every day so they'll have to call me something else."--MJ from January, 1972 (submitted by Hoju)

"...so if I'm doing a movement and I go bam [grabs his crotch] and I grab myself it's....It's the music that compels me to do it, it's not saying that I'm tying to grab down there and it's not in a great place, you don't think about it, it just happens...."--Michael talking to Oprah in 1993 (submitted by Hoju)

"I have to stand in front of him and dance" (Really?) "Yes. And he stops crying. his tears turn to laughter and he's happy...He smiles."--MJ talking to Barbara Walters on 20/20, about Prince in 1997 (submitted by Hoju)

"They found nothing....nothing, nothing that could say 'Michael Jackson did this'..." (I want to ask....) "To this day, nothing. Still nothing." (Let me ask you...) "Nothing, nothing, nothing!" (Nothing. We got the nothing).--MJ talking to Diane Sawyer on the Prime Time interview in 1995 (submitted by Hoju)

"It's dusk, the moon's coming out...the most beautiful part of the day...I can see some of the stars coming out...it's very beautiful. Everything comes to life...the fireflies are in the trees and...everything's becoming magic..."--MJ in Waterfall interview (unauthorized) in the early '80s (submitted by Hoju)

(singing)"....soaring up the sky...watch me now...watch me now...I'm Peter Pan...I can do anything..."--MJ in Waterfall interview (unauthorized) in early '80s (submitted by Hoju)

"Playing football in the park."--MJ on what love is from Right On! magazine, 1972 (submitted by Hoju)

(MJ is asked: What do you do when you're off the stage?) "I dream about the stage. (laughs)"--Dianne Collins interview, late '80s(submitted by Hoju)

"You're strange. I don't like you...you're scaring these kids, living up here all alone...."--MJ as the Mayor in 'Ghosts' (submitted by Hoju)

(singing) "I would like to sing with you...would you like to sing with meeeeee..."--MJ singing to Lisa Marie on the Prime Time interview in 1995 (submitted by Hoju)

"Some of us like to play it safe and take each day as it comes. Some of us like to take that crazy walk on the wild side. So for those of us wo like living dangerously, this one is for you."--MJ at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards (submitted by Joost)

"...You're taking your weight and pushing it back. That's what creates the illusion, the weight shifting."--MJ from the end of 'Jam' where MJ is teaching M. Jordan how to dance. (submitted by Danielle)

"Put me down, please."--MJ when John Landis lifts MJ over his shoulders on 'Making of Thriller'. (submitted by Danielle)

"They're fine un-until, like if you go over 15 minutes,they start aching and paining. But when you begin to get physically tired and your eyes get tired, they put these drops in that burn, like, putting tobassco hot sauce in your eyes. You go 'ohhhh' and you're crying and your eyes are red, but up to there is fine."--MJ on 'The Making Of Thriller' talking about the contacts. (submitted by Danielle)

"Michael Jackson is still Michael Jackson as a zombie. Michael Jackson isn't Michael Jackson as a werewolf. Michael Jackson is another person totally, with the mask."--Ola Ray on 'The Making Of Thriller'. (submitted by Danielle)

(The critics have said that it's the most boldly, vain-glorious, deifacation a pop singer ever undertook with a straight face.)"Good! That's what I wanted." (For the controversy?)"Yeah." (And they..)"They fell into my trap." (For the...)"I wanted" (For the people who say...)"I wanted everybody's attention."--Diane Sawyer talking to Michael about the "HIStory" teaser in 1995. (submited by Danielle)

"You ain't seen nothing yet."--MJ on the World Music Awards in May 2000. (submitted by Danielle)