I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

I don't want to do anything in bad taste.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.

We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.

The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England.

You have to really think about things before you do them.

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

I've been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the 'Star Trek' franchise (don't get me started on 'Voyager,' though), but there's something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

“Can't” isn't a word. You have the power to do, be or create anything.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

In the long run there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome with him? Did you spend much time together off-screen? Those are a small sampling of the inquiries I'm asked often, wherever I go around the world.

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies: If they want to issue a new regulation, they have to rescind two regulations that are now on the books. The idea of 'one in, two out' has rhetorical appeal, but it's going to be extremely hard to pull off.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

Sprinting for a full day in Atlanta in midsummer proved very challenging. That humidity is crazy. Georgia is a beautiful state, but the weather is intense. I was warned, but for some reason I thought it would be like L.A. in the summer. The reality? No.

I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you.

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.