I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

Peace is a road to happiness and the future.War is a road to destruction and death.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.