Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

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.

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

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.

Fate loves the fearless.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

No one can make you feel inferior unless you let them.

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

It doesn't mean, ' she shrugged. 'It just is

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.