If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience.

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.

Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?

I count my blessings every single day that I am an American.

Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

He who walks straight rarely falls.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re own.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.