The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.