I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.

Just because you are what you are, where you are, that does not mean you should continue to be there.

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

After dating for five years, my relationship with Irina Shayk has come to an end. We believed it would be best for both of us to take this step now. I wish Irina the greatest happiness.

Western man is schizophrenic.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.