My films do very well on home video.
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter. ' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure. ' But that's the truth.
You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from. . . the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.