That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others

People are like the waves, all similar, none the same

Before searching for happiness in others, we must first find it in ourselves.

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.