My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

My family is well, and that's what's important.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow

You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.

My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family.

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

Diamonds are a girls bestfriend

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.