I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

She wasn't ordinary, I liked her that way. Mystery oozed from her pours as she walked so lightly I could have mistaken her for an angel.

Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

Ask me who I don't dress!

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.