Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.