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.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

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.

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