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

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.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Family are the people that can hurt you the most.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

For me, sometimes it's more important to perform well in training and know that I am improving rather than scoring in a game. It's doing the hard work, day in, day out.

It’s important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

The modern shopping mall is the cathedral of air-conditioned culture, and it symbolizes the placelessness of the New South.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.