As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the 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.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

Telling the truth is absolutely important.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.