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Quotes by Entertainer

"My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around."

"Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books."

"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."

"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."

"We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great nations are built. We should no longer allow any woman's voice to be drowned out or disregarded. As we affirm other women, and as we teach our sons, husbands and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we've stood on and the daughters who will one day stand tall on ours."

"Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same."

"A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill."

"I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special."

"I am providing a service that many people obviously value."

"I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me. Like, if I'm wearing Louboutins that day, and my producer sees Earth shoes in the stall....well, you get the idea. It was truly a lightbulb moment when that came to me."

"Yeah, the record for most titles was previously held by the Fabulous Moolah, she won it four times. And a few weeks ago, I won the title for the sixth time, which has never been done before."

"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."

"There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system."

"The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes."

"The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness."

"Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist."

"So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments."

"In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear."

"Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy."

"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs."

"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."

"Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children."

"God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club."

"When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way."

"I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio."

"Poverty is not the root cause of crime."

"Most every dental school has discount dental services."

"One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I."

"We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that."

"We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family."

"With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out."

"There are no limits, love, there are no limits."

"Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."

"Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century."

"Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause."

"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free."


"There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry."

"The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum."

"Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world."

"Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people."

"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."

"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."

"I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard."
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"As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated."

"This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week."

"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
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