Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Never do anything as though you are a professional armature

I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Rest is sweet after strife.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.