"A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is."

“The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.”

“I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even when you watch all the way through the end of a drama, you remember the actor’s name, not the character’s. I want my character’s name to be more remembered than mine.”

“Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting.  It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!”

“An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.”

“In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.”

Source : "French PM François Fillon to Urge Cameron to Help Bolster the Euro". Speech in the City of London, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2011.

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.”

Source : 1612 The White Devil, act 5, sc.6.

“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.”