I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

The bad boy: always more fun.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

You have to be tough.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.