The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.