In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

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.

Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving

My heart filled with endless praise.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.