The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

There is diversity of belief but it is the same God at work.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.