As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

The terrible poverty of pride is that there is nothing that can be taken in selfishness which will exceed what is received when nothing is expected and everything is offered.

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.