Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

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.

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.

I can make the best French toast.

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

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

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.