Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.