Famous Quotes & Sayings

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Rosie O'Donnell

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Rosie O'Donnell

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

Randy Newman

If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

Richard Lewis

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

Steven Wright

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

Steven Wright

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

Steven Wright

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

Ben Stiller

I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

Ben Stiller

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

Patton Oswalt

Well, my dad had a lot of Jonathan Winters albums, so those were my first memories of listening to anything funny, and those were very influential.

Paul Reiser

But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people.

Paul Reiser

This is not the most right I've ever been.

Paul Reiser

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

Red Buttons

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

Red Buttons

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

Red Buttons

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Wanda Sykes

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

Chevy Chase

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

Cheech Marin

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

Cheech Marin

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.

Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.

I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.

We must decide how the population should be distributed, and what industries we want in the north of Australia, in the west and elsewhere.

Paul Reiser

We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.

If you are doing well, it is an incredible lifestyle.

The people want to share in something more than the material rewards of life, and to talk in terms of increasing the national product is not enough.

Ben Stiller

Having a child changes everything in a most positive way, and I am extremely lucky to have a great wife who is also an incredible mom.

Paul Reiser

Guys need a little help in knowing how to care for a kid. It's not that I think: Gee, parenting is beneath me. It's just that I wouldn't think of it.