I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

change.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

The real minimum wage is zero.