"My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it."

"I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'"

"When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks."

"I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work."

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined."