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

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.