You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?

In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.

When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Never say its impossible until you have given it your best shot

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

When you go upstairs, go up with high spirit; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirit.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.