I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.