"I carried it too far, thats for sure."

“My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us best friends.”

Source : "Susan Ford Bales: Ford's Daughter Enjoys Tulsa Time". Interview with Robby Trammell, newsok.com. November 13, 1989.

“A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.”

“World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.  Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.”

“I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.”

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

“Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?”

“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”

“I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'”