I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.

She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

Worms are the intestines of the earth.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.