I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

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

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

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

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.