They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

Working gets in the way of living.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.

All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.