It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Acceptance for me is loving what “is” and not in looking back at the past. I do not need to know what the future holds either- if the present is good, can the future be anything less than good?

I think it's easy to stop smoking

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Eventually you will be dead, but today you are not.

Once more you open the door and you're here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.