When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

Examine and know one's value before you allow much access into your life.Verandas have no door, but the rooms do.

A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains.

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesn’t matter the reason of its making.

Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.