On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!

I brought a knife to the gunfight. I am the knife. I am all blade.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.