It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

God is a luxury I can't afford.

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I thought I would be understood without words.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.