[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.

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.

Never Give up Dreams

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.