Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.