Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

It was a boy's name first.

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

The reason they call it golf is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing but it hurts.

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when youre finished.

Sometimes integrity is a punch in the face.

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

I'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment, as I weather the storms of life.

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

Your first responsibility is to the organization, to teach and prepare players to get to the big leagues and have them ready when they get there, but everyone in the minors wants to be in the majors.

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.