I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

Why some gonococcal strains are more resistant than others is still not clear.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably its a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

I want people to feel good about themselves.

There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

Human sympathy has its limits.

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

Its but little good youll do a

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.