I'm, like, y'know, I didn't have a problem doing one scene in Dude, Where's My Car? I'm certainly not going to have a problem doing one scene in a [Martin] Scorsese movie!

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.

وكيف تنساني يا كل ناسي

Read enough books.

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.