“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot,...” — Spike Milligan Quote

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

“I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.”

“I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.”

“May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.”

“Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.”

“I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.”

“How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?”

“I'd love to do a perlod piece. Maybe 'Caesar and Cleopatra.' I could do both roles- at one-and-a-half salaries.”

“Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'”

“In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.”

“I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.”