I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

You're exactly as big as I let you be.

Maybe don't make it so.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

In deep suffering, you know the sacred soul.

The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.