Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.
I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.
[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.
If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.
Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.
The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
All I ever wanted to do was act.
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
