In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Don’t complain. Find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.