I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution

I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.