"Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

"We need to make a decision, no matter what it is."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country."

"In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost."