Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.
When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.
As a player, you would sometimes want a bit more public backing.
Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
I missed my childhood, when you start your school at the older age, it's hard.
I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time.
I've tried to work as hard as possible.
No one ever excused his way to success.
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
