Bikinis, zucchinis, martinis No weenies.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.

Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

They say that a martini is like a woman's breast. One ain't enough and three is too many.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Extra-dirty vodka Martinis - they're so easy to drink! I should really just drink olive juice; it'd be safer.

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

Martinis are glamorous but also so simple because they only have a few ingredients, and you can really taste the vodka.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

I don't party on weekends, I don't get drunk or sip martinis. I spend my evenings playing 'Megaman 3,' buster only, with my kids.

I've been learning a lot about how to make a martini and all the variations that you can have with a few ingredients with Belvedere.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.

Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution.

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

90 percent of the time I follow my usual healthy eating routine, but if it's a date night or girls' night out I'll go for that slice of pretzel bread or dirty martini and not torture myself over it.

There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'

Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the music starts playing. Always old-school hip-hop. Jay-Z. Tribe Called Quest. The Pharcyde. My parents love that stuff.

We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!'

I purchased a 1955 Rolls-Royce that my wife liked because it was new the year we were married. Then came a 1926 Hispano-Suiza Cabriolet that I bought at my first classic car auction after I had three martinis. As more cars were added, I had to buy a warehouse.

Films are a very personal experience - just like a martini - so I try to think about what I like, what projects I like to be in, and make sure I feel proud about it because, at the end, I'm the only one that's going to look back and feel proud or not about what I was doing.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter.

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.

Share This Page