I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.

The best thing she was, was her children.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister].

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.