I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

Community living is about having the same rights and choices as everyone else.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Daddy I'm just little But I love you BIG Happy Birthday Big Daddy

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.