My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.
Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself. "
The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
Success doesn't just happen. It starts for those who take action.