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So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.'

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.