The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!

When it is time for you to say goodbye to a beloved animal friend, remember that while the physical interaction ceases, the soul connection you share is eternal and remains with you both forever.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

Each film does bring a new set of personalities and it can turn out great or it can turn out not great.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

To keep creating you have to be about change.

The dose makes the poison.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.