I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.
I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.
With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
