With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“I no longer live in Chicago. Not a day goes by when I do not wish I were there.” — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“Doing things the right way, giving guys accolades for that. It’s important. In Burger King we used to call it taking a walk. Taking a walk means you get out of your office and walk around the restaurant. You walk outside and look for trash. Is the dining room clean? Are your employees dressed properly? Are they smiling? Are the… — Rich Cohen Copy Share
“Football is an angry game, played with punishing violence," he writes. "People get destroyed on the field, lives end. It makes sense that its first star was someone who'd already lost everything, a ruined man, ill-treated, stripped to his essential qualities: speed, strength, power. Jim Thorpe is the spirit of the game. Every NFL hit still carries the fury of… — Rich Cohen Copy Share
Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“According to David Maraniss, the author of When Pride Still Mattered, Lombardi’s last words, spoken in a delirium on his deathbed, were: “Joe Namath!… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending -… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“The way the kids of immigrants heard about America, you would think it was not down the stairs and out the door but still… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“I shook his hand and thanked him, and as I thanked him I welled up and as that happened I tried to explain. 'It’s… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
![“The way the kids of immigrants heard about America, you would think it was not down the stairs and out the door but still across the ocean, a distant place where everything is promised and, for hard work, everything is given. From the day he left his parents' house, Abe [Reles] had to know his…” quote by Rich Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ee/rich-cohen-26170_american-dream_the-way-the-kids-of-immigrants-heard-abo_1466472.jpg)
