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

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.

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.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Why do people fear hell so much? With so much hatred and division amongst mankind, we are already in it.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.