If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I’m very free-spirited.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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?

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I’m filthy rich!

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

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

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Rap was my drug.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I’m much healthier now.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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

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.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I’m loving my role as a McLaren Young Driver, spending time in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre and attending some Grands Prix with the team.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.