Awe and respect are two different things.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.