The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed

Without ambition, nothing is achieved. Without work, nothing will be completed. The prize will not be sent until you earn it.

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.