We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.

Once you truly surrender, you won’t feel like you are waiting anymore. You won’t know how quickly or where your SoulMate will show up. Prepare to be surprised!

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.