American Quotes

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The universe is an intelligence test.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Think for yourself and question authority.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.

I actually like talking.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.