“It’s easy to be generous with money.”

Far harder to be generous with your time.

And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart.

A nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

I’ve got a group who can’t play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.

It’s not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn’t.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.

Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.

Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.

It’s really easy with makeup to look like you’re trying too hard, like a clown. That’s not what you want!

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.