I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Focus your heart, mind, and soul on joy and you'll find ultimate success and fulfillment.

There comes a point when you win, and you can either soothe the loser into thinking there was something in it for them or kick them while they're down to make sure they know what just happened.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I actually believe he is the new Cilla Black.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.