I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.