"When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it"

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that"

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste"

"Give the peasants neither life nor death"

"I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night"

"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death"

"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with"