The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you more than who I was created to be.

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.

The state of no being is a divine-being.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.