"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."

“Discs and memory are far cheaper than annoying your customers.”

“I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.”

Source : Source: grigwaretalkstheatre.blogspot.com

“The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.”

“You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.”

“Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.”

Source : "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 1, 2013.

“Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.”

“I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing”

Source : "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

“Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.”