The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

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

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.

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

We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.