I go wherever my fare is paid.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.