I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent