Amongst good men two men suffice.
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
Im going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I havent seen. Ive spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.