As an actor, I trust my ear.

You can't really dust for vomit.

You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.

I work, play and do everything in French.

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.