Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.