If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.

We're a show-and-tell generation. People want to see behind the scenes. The more involved and invited they are, the closer affinity they have to your brand.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Normal is the average of deviance.

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.

There's a generation that doesn't care if Tom Cruise is at the top of the movie. They want authenticity.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the choreography, all the ways to shoot that. I was more the director of actors. I was in front of the camera directing, and he was behind the camera directing.

Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

Kids naturally tend to be a bit camera shy, especially in front of strangers.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Look at Virat Kohli, he is such a fantastic role model. India is a fortunate country. Every generation produces players who all of us cherish.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.