Anthony Quotes

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

The world is full of horrible things.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

Hitler really wasn't so bad. In the black way.

I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Love springs from awareness.

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.

Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.