I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
I'm a sucker for a free tuxedo.
I'm going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
It is better to look good than to feel good.
I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed, but never shamed.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.