If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

Perhaps I couldn’t tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.