I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s)

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

New socialize by insulting each other, but don't really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don't really mean it

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

A mind always employed is always happy.