For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

I don't know if I'm brave.

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.