The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. ' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book. '
Haters are going to hate.
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.
Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself. . . I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.
The truth was much more beautiful.