”I suppose 95 percent of the people who have seen me in movies think I must be a comedian, which I`m not. If not a wild-and-crazy guy, then a funny, off-the-wall, zany Mel Brooksian, Richard Pryorish kind of wacko-when, in fact . . . I`m sort of shy and retiring.”
-Gene Wilder, an actor who has been funny in films.
”You`re seeing here something that I think is a new device we`ll try to be using more often in the future.”
-Lawrence Eagleburger, deputy secretary of state, on efforts to raise funds among allies to pay for the U.S. buildup in the Persian Gulf.
”We do not consider the United States of America our main enemy.”
-Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, KGB chairman.
”The reason I turned down the part had nothing to do with the fact that he tried to kill me.”
-Richard Belzer, after he declined a role in the film ”Urban Commandos” upon discovering that his co-star would be Hulk Hogan, who five years ago left him unconscious and bleeding on a talk show after demonstrating a hold.
