I assumed, "Well, I must've sounded like Conan O'Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something." And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.