When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

She's not your type. Since when do I have a type?

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.