A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

If young children boo me, that makes my day.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.