“We rest our case on the production numbers.”

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.

You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.

Mad About You’ was very fun.

The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.

Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.