You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership

Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Every day in life is beautiful...every day!

A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And you don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

APPRECIATION IN ANY FORM AT ANY TIME BRIGHTENS ANYONE'S EXISTENCE.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.