I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the [Donald] Trump campaign.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.