For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.