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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

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I was raised mostly by my mom.

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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!

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Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.

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It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

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I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

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I started writing in 1948 - basically.

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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

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Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.

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Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

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Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.

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What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.

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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

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I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

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I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.

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You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.

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There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.

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That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

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I've worn down America.

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Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.

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My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

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Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

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What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.

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I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

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I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

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I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.

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When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

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I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

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I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

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That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

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Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

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