No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

Grounded leaders are present for others operate with fortitude and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Drama is very important in life You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if its done right. Even a pancake.

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.

I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'

You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.