Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Life is like a sewer - you get out of it what you put into it.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?