For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I'm too old to be forced.

I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals.

You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.