My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others