Instability famous quotes

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion.

There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.