Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what’s worth pursuing.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth