With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.
I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.
Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.
And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Some people say 'life is too short,' but yet constantly procrastinating as if life on earth is forever.
They say that 'life is too short,' but I must say that if you live each day happily and productively, it is quite long enough.
The beauty of happiness is that you can solely attain it despite what people say or think about you.
