Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Rich with the spoils of time.

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.