"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."

"Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it."

"I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again."

"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."

"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."

"The thing is that anybody looks good in the right clothes. It will affect your bearing. It will affect your demeanor. It informs the way you behave."

"You have to be ill if you want to get better."

"I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs."

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

"My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s."

"There’s a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn’t mean you don’t take it seriously."

"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours. We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in OUR image. Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.

“So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.”

“Phall if you but will, rise you must.”

“How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys!”

“between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour.”