Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.