Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?ME: MATH.

If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.