I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

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.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

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