Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I think I need security.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
