I shave without using shaving cream.

Money is sensual.

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

I shave without using shaving cream.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

Dont face the fear and youll be its slave. Face the fear and now you are its master. The death of fear is then certain.

When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don't get what you don't ask for.

God is building an army all over the place, in Hollywood as well. So it feels good to be a part of it.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.

The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

People think about their business instead of their products.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.