It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

The secret of success is doing something you love, doing it well and being recognized for it

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.