I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.