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.
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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.
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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.
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
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.
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.
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular.
I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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.
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
"I've never not been famous."
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