Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

There's a million jokes about what's going on with Batman and Robin. It's a classic thing to call out the homoerotic nature of the men's adventure show.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

I'm an entrepreneur.

Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.