I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.