I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

All that is considered truth and undoubted will sooner or later get into the sub consciousness

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

You be up on everything, other hoes aint ever on it

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

I would rather stop [making movies] too soon than too late.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?