Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.
The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
I've always lived in the same way.
I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.
"I've never not been famous."
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