You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

It's pain that changes our lives.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.