In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.