Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees. . . I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but. . . thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!
King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!
Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway. ' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.