This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

How terrible a thing time is.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

What an extraordinary world it is.

This diamond has so many carats its almost a turnip.

False friendship like the ivy decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.

The measure of a mans real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

Slander expires at a good woman's door.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.