My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

It's impossible I think however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure which I cannot claim to have there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

I went into the business for the money and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark I can't help it. It's the truth.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not we cling to.'

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people their history their culture and their values.

I think I meant that given the circumstances of my childhood I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person because it was more romantic. You know I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.