“We’re creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge.”

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.

I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.

You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.

The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.

If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question

Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.

I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.

We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don’t have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?

The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.