I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.

You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.

Sorry we’re late. Liam had to make sure his hair fell just right.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.