I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

You can't control the way people are going to describe you.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.

I know guys. I know the way they think.

The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

It is only when we first do what we are SUPPOSED to do, that we set ourselves to be successful at what we WANT to do

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.