When you work with words, words are your work.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms. Merkel were reelected.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.