I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

We should all relax about life because you dont have a clue as to whats really going on.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

A good husband makes a good wife.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.