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

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.

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.

I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

Football is potential post-career suicide.