Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.

When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

Love is a powerful painkiller.