If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

I have a feeling that I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.