Any film is at least better than real life.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

To lose is not always failure.

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.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

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.

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