People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Deadlines give us the sense that we are really on our way and that we will achieve the goal – soon!

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.