Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

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.

Hope is a garden where dreams grow like flowers.

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

I was just wondering why you're here.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.