I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.

Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.

I don't think social commentary should be planned, you just have to be truthful.

I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

As you get older you also start to lose your anger a bit.

Whose little boy are you?

The simple things in life last a lot longer in your heart

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won't be consistent.