Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

My mantra is "stay perpendicular." Horizontal is not as good. Half the people that came along and up with with me are either gone to another dimension or don't remember what they had for lunch. I'm fortunate. I don't know why. I just want to have a good time.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry