The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

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.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized. It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to. In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.