It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

Aside from the nagging, he's the most entertaining hallucination I've ever had.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.