The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.