We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.