I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.