It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.

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.

Update your truth! There is no soul

Fill your mind, with the mind of God, meditate on the Holy Scripture.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.