I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

When you work with words, words are your work.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

For the first time in fifteen years, he felt a mother's love again.

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate