When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.