Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight.

Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.