There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.