Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.
I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.
We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.
The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid. . . it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.