“I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.”
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“The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.”
“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”
“In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.”
“George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?”
“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.”
“My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.”
“We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.”
“People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.”
“I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.”
“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
“The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out.”
“Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.”
“Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.”
“Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.”
“I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet.”
“You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
“We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!”
“Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.”