We THINK that the more we have, the happier we will be. We NEVER know what TOMORROW might bring, so we COLLECT and save as much as we can. This means we need a LOT of money, so we gradually start judging people by how much money they have.

Everything GRADUALLY comes to an END or there's a NEW challenge AROUND the corner.

With CG, I can do more and be sillier. In 'Diary,' there's a scene where they HIT a guy with acid, and the CAMERA is never off him, and you SEE it gradually EAT through his skull and GET all the way through his brain. That's fun, too.

The REPUBLICAN Party supported the Equal Rights AMENDMENT before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing DEMOCRATS, after the civil rights bill of 1964, LEFT the Democratic Party and gradually have TAKEN over the Republican Party.

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. GRADUALLY I CAME to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was PERFORMANCE, that SOMETIMES people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

With such EVIDENCE, as WELL as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the MYSTERY GRADUALLY dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a TOMB.

This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done FILMS before. GRADUALLY, you REALIZE, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the RICHEST man I've ever met.

It's APPROPRIATE for the Fed to GRADUALLY and cautiously increase our OVERNIGHT INTEREST rate over time.

It's O.K. to fail. Just KEEP PUTTING yourself there. Once I started SAYING that and REALLY BELIEVING that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

If you LISTEN to a LOT of MUSIC, it GRADUALLY seeps into your CONSCIOUSNESS or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

If not met promptly and decidedly, the TWO portions of the UNION will gradually become thoroughly ALIENATED, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all POLITICAL ties or sink down into abject SUBMISSION.

Peace is a DAILY, a weekly, a monthly PROCESS, GRADUALLY changing opinions, slowly eroding old BARRIERS, quietly building new structures.

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a LARGE group of strangers LAUGH is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can EASE the FEAR.

The FIRST long CHAPTER of my CAREER was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a HUMAN being.

It's LIKE with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little MYSTERY is always nice and it's INTERESTING to STILL learn NEW things about someone you are involved with.