The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

The more you expose, the less personal it becomes

Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!