I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

I love it when you stare at me but my arrogance is entirely your fault.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

We are all dead men on leave.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Never meet trouble half-way.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.