I’ve got a very interesting background.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, ‚Why don’t you write your autobiography?‘

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I was a thug.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.