I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

A country where God is not honored cannot be truly successful

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!