It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

The other man's arse is always cleaner!

[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.