I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Let's get up here before we get killed!

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.