I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Writers need each other.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.