The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.