If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

I buried my face against his neck, breathing him in - the smell of machine oil, summertime, a thousand memories

Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.

Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?