Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.