I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

I make more time to have fun in the life I'm living before I'm worm food.

Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.