I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

If you don't go, you'll never know.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

You don't need words to express feelings.

Passion should always trump common sense.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

Sometimes the most important word is no. It takes the pressure off.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears