Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink, some to sip and others just to gargle.

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything."If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all” - Michael Angelo

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The more educated the people, the freer they are.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.

I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.