"I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown …"

"If I won't be myself, who will?"

"Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."

"I have a perfect understanding of the human mind. I know what makes people tick."

"When an actor comes to me and says, 'I'm not happy with my lines, I'm not happy with my character,' I say, 'There's a door, get out.'"