An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.