I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

My favourite singer ever in the world is Ari Up from The Slits. Her voice is amazing to me. It's carefree, but it's also really amazing.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.