I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?