Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
You help families focus on the future through their children.
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.
Oh yeah. I'm always dancing on bars. I'm a bloke that loves a drink, and when you're just free and on the loose like we are on films - it happens.
You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.
You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.
You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.
Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly.
People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
I'm very, very pleased. Our goal today was to come in here and do the best we could, and we did that.
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.