Oliver Reed

“I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.”

“I like the effect drink has on me.”

“I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.”

“I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.”

“Awe and respect are two different things.”

“Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.”

“When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.”

“I'm really a pacifist.”

“I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.”

“I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.”

“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.”

“I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.”

“Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!”

“I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.”

“I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.”

“But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.”

“I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.”

“I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.”

“I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.”

“I do not live in the world of sobriety.”