To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.

Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.

We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.