I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

Be not a person only, be a message to the world.

You should persist long enough to conquer.

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.