If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.