I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

But that is impossible, " said Peter."Magic is always impossible, " said the magician. "It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic.

Never under-estimate the value of an idea

Laughter is a tranquilizer without after-effects.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.