Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)