We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

The devil is more interesting than God.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

History remembers most what you did last.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

Is everything right because the law allows it?