If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

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.

You can give up your present dream provided that you have created a new dream and especially a better one!

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

I was Chairman Maos dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The same way you slow me down: … You can’t.

I loved him for himself alone.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person