I eat well, but I don't believe in diets.

I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

There is nothing wrong with falling in love. Don't trip and bump your head only to realize you're experiencing infatuation.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

More men die from overeating than undernourishment.