My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.