Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

In a fallacious world where we live

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.