It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

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.

Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

I'm psyched about what I can contribute that can be meaningful to myself and to others.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.