I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.

The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he's weak and indecisive.

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Love is the oxygen of the soul