The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.
People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need ...
The anger of the prudent never shows.
There's no business like show business.
I have this mistress: show business.
I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
Government is not show business.
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
Captain of Guards: What have you got? Old Woman: Well, I have a talking donkey. Captain of Guards: Really? Well, that's good for ten shillings... if you can prove it. Old Woman: Go ahead, little fella. [Donkey says nothing] Captain of Guards: Well? O...
. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to ...
Selfridge: Look. You're supposed to be winning the hearts and minds of the natives. Isn't that the whole point of your little puppet show? If you walk like them, you talk like them, they'll trust you. We build them a school, teach them English. But a...
My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.
I can't abide small talk.
I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.
Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
I have a hit TV show.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show.
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.