It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

Maybe next time, don't bite the girl you fancy.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

Those are real hard fans. There are a lot of them here. Some are a little bit crazy with their drinking their beers every once in a while. But I love it.