When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!