I don’t go to the doctor except when I’m very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

I don’t like recording studios – except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d’honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don’t like Sarkozy, but that’s ridiculous. I refused because I don’t like decorations – except on women.

Nothing exists except moments and time; everything else is opinion.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Thank you… Apple, for adding a camera to the iPod Nano. Now it’s just like the iPhone except it can’t make calls. So basically, it’s just like the iPhone.

I’ve heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we’re the real nitty-gritty actors who’re in a town where being onstage doesn’t necessarily get you anything except your craft.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That’s...

Nothing is forever. Except time.

I just finished touring, and I’m on a detox thing. It’s a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I...

I don’t think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

There are no rules except time.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years...