In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.

It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

My base will show up in earthquakes.