Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Be like the moon, give everyone your love and smiles.

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by 'new at it, ' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

I've worked with pythons and such in a couple of movies, and I had to wrangle around, but I was okay. Still, if I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by them.