New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Youre welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

I was a food junkie.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

The duty of a good cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

You may turn into an archangel a fool or a criminal no one will see it. But when a button is missing everyone sees that.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

I believe there's been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on-demand services... that maybe aren't having as much of a focus as they should on the worker.

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

I'm going to miss my best friends - my cameras.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished or the luster of it will never appear.

I say it's a girls' world.

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

Gratitude is infinite praise.

I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.