Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory.

...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.