It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine.

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.'

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.

Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.