If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

Love is not perfection. Love is when two imperfect people choose not to give up on each other.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.