Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don’t leave me, Em. You’re my salvation.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

Survival is your strength not your shame.

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.