Sound Bites

Sound Bites

Sound Bites: The week's best TV Quotes -- TV's funniest lines from May 14 to 19

''All my life I have dreamed of one thing: the day I could go into a library and go to the card catalog and see my name under 'Mental Illness.' ''
-Niles (David Hyde Pierce) on his ambition to write a book, on Frasier

''I pity the man who lives with her!''
-Candice Bergen's husband, Louis Malle, guest-starring as himself, on trying to direct an exasperating Murphy Brown

''I ask you, do I look like big government?''
-Four-foot-eleven-inch Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, to Jay Leno

''It was a showbiz family: For our birthdays, we got a line.''
-Mia Farrow on her father, John Farrow, giving her a part in his 1959 movie, John Paul Jones, on Late Show

Originally posted May 20, 1994 Published in issue #223 May 20, 1994 Order article reprints

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