If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

I wish I had done everything on earth with you

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.