The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.