It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month.

I'm enjoying life at my fullest. Sometimes you realize that money isn't everything.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.