Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I fully expect the police to come after me. To which I have just one thing to say: good luck.

Every invalid is a physician.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.