Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

In Hollywood, it's hard to be funny, because all the big jokes are in Washington.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

I love The Matrix, especially the first one.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.