I'd love to retire in terms of not having to go to work anymore and earn a living.
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.
My normal life is like being on holiday.
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
I'm a total beach bum.
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.
Not too much hard work, plenty of time to read, good society, etcetera.
When Hayes was governor of Ohio, he described the job in this manner,
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.
If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
My whole life is a vacation.
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
Living in my parents' house is pretty sweet. It's not like they're rich or anything, but they're pretty nice to me, so it was pretty good living there, too, and all I did was jujitsu. I was just like a stallion, just living on my parents' couch. It wasn't terrible.
If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.
Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.
I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!