You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINEThe basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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