After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.