I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.

I yearned for the woman who could bring me to my knees then raise me up again, making me stronger than before.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.