The best things in life aren't things.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

The things that matter most are not things.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.