“I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.”

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

Listen to the song of life.

I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Caterpillars must grow- destroy what it is you think you know.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!