When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I would have really loved to have gone on a hiatus to write for Daredevil.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

When life knocks you down try to land on your back. Because if you can look up you can get up.

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

The story-making process enables us to simplify complex information into the core essence of understanding.

I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes chess made flesh a mixture of proud chivalry and base in both senses greed.

Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!

Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.