I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Create a massive drawing of what God has promised you.

God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.