As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

I'll have that one, please.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.

Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.