The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.