I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The average person thinks he isn't.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.