“I started making movies when I was 20. I started playing piano when I was about 3 years old, so I'm probably a musician first. But when I'm working on a movie, as an actor, I'm an actor - 100 percent. And when I'm on tour, I'm a musician 100 percent.”

—  Harry Connick, Jr.

The Costco Connection magazine interview, February 2007 http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200702/?pg=30

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