The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work

I know I am very beautiful.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).

Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.