When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.