I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.