Without hurting anybody we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

It is easy for me to love myself but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's I mean.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks they are always locking three.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is.

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands and that for me suggests brotherhood family friendship and community.

People are roasting each other at parties at work events around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops and it's a sign of affection truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

But based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.