The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

God is a luxury I can't afford.

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

CharityIn charity lies happiness and bliss, If you haven’t done charity, you may miss, The power to love and share, Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.

True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.