When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I continue to believe contrary to the given wisdom that it's more interesting to have an album - or indeed an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

However I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.