I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
He who hesitates is poor.
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
I only direct in self-defense.
