Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

In Hollywood, it's hard to be funny, because all the big jokes are in Washington.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

Without the knowledge of God, we perish.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive.