When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.