Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

The cinema is death at work.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.