Mental Notes & Random Musings

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny. ~ Lisa Lampanelli

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~ Phyllis Diller

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show. ~ Ginger Rogers

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. ~ Willie Aames

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me. ~ Polly Bergen

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. ~ Patrick Stewart

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places. ~ Milton Berle

I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career! ~ Lisa Rinna

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. ~ Fiona Shaw

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one. ~ Kevin O'Leary

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~ Marty Feldman

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ~ Doc Severinsen

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. ~ P. T. Barnum

I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get. ~ Eva Marie Saint

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer. ~  Betty Buckley

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. ~ Richard Petty

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing. ~ Debbie Harry

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ~ Thomas Sowell