Quotes About Author

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

The enemy of feminism isn't men. It's patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful.

Girls learn sexiness, women teach class.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.

As of myself, I work with Heineken, who is a huge sponsor that enables us to get inside a kind of market that would be very hard to get into without its help.

I don't have a sponsor or come from an exotic country where I can bring tonnes of money.

We need IMG-Reliance in Indian football as they are an important sponsor.

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

By the time I got the notoriety to get bigger sponsors, the sponsorship tax had already taken effect, but I still had some pretty lucrative sponsors.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.

I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.