Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?

i wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new position, that would be good

The adventures of a lifetime begin with “Yes.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'