I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Want a hot dog, McMahon?

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.