All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top.

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

When you open your mind, you let happiness in.

I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.