Do unto others, then run.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Do unto others, then run.

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Just because nobody complains doesnt mean all parachutes are perfect.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

You have to make it happen.

I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it gauge it sound it out and descend into it.

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.

After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.