You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.