I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.