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

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.