A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

I like that girl more than I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll start carin’ about what other people think when I’m six feet under.

There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something...All this talk about rules...When the deal goes down...we make 'em up as we go along.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

No one goes through life with a whole heart.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.