“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

“What other people think of me is not my business.”

“Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life.”

“As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.”

“What other people think of me is none of my business. ”

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”

“I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.”