I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

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.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.

You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.

In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.

I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.