Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

You write the script, and then you just go over it 400 times and make all the jokes better. It really is true. That's essentially the way it works.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year