"If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles."

“God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.”

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”

“I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.”

“Big dreams are so damn tiring.”

“The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be.”

“I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?”

“I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.”

Source : "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

“I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.”