I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Conscience is a treacherous thing and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

The hand in the eye is the ultimate tool.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.