I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

TV is the best babysitter.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what youre doing. Dont worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.

I'm not stupid. I know on paper I'm the B-side of this fight. Canelo's the big name.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

I have never given up on men easily.

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

My grandmother Rosita, my mother Angela and I have probably got different styles but we have very similar tastes. For example, I don't find it hard to use colours or wear knits, since it's something that comes to me naturally.

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

As a kid I was creative.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

Grief is so painfully real regardless of its origin. The love of and attachment to an animal friend can equal that of human relationships. Likewise the loss of an animal can be just as devastating.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

To step into reverence for your body, you must pardon yourself for all you have done and not done to care for it. You must bless what works and accept and embrace all you perceive to be wrong.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual they will have a quality of sexuality.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.