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Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician's armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.