I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

You can make a lot of money with a good cat." -Ty Warner

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.