Between the Pope and air conditioning, I’d choose air conditioning.
To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.
It figures you’ve got to hate yourself if you’ve got any integrity at all.
When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there’s a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.
Hey listen – I’ve proved a lot of things. That’s how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let’s not get carried away.
This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can’t.
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It’s a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.
I can do a limited amount of things and that’s what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.
People always ask me, Do you ever think you’ll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me – it’s an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We’re one.
Marriage? That’s for life! It’s like cement!
If you aren’t failing every now and then, you’re probably playing it too safe.
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
I don’t why whatever works and whatever doesn’t. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there’s a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You’re surprised pleasantly when they do. It’s just luck.
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.
I think I’ve gotten technically better over the years but you’d have to be a fool not to. I’ve made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.