All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.