Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.

Brexit suggests that there IS some level of non-vocal group who supports positions like those espoused by [Donald]Trump that polls are missing.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Thou shalt never wash my feet.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.