It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another---it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.
Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.
You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.
