I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn’t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

Hallows, not Horcruxes.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.