Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.

If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.