I don’t like drinking, basically.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I’d be very happy. It’s not my favorite thing to do.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I don’t use blue. I don’t like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I don’t care about money.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

This way of life is worth defending.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

My music is a luxury.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.