Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

The “social justice” movement is not at all about social justice, but about relentlessly bullying anyone who does not subscribe to their Stalinist ideology.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

Literally, these [heels] slow you down.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs.” “I know how to make a snow angel.” “Then do it! Otherwise, you’re more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.