Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.