It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.

An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.

Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us.

Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.