Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

A lot happens in 20 years.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

I didn't have a childhood.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

I still have a young attitude.

I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

I'm against abortion.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people.

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesnt afterward.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.