You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

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.

Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions “helping my child to gain admission.

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.