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.

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.

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.

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.

We are drawn to greatness because there's something about the greatness in others that speaks to us about our own possibilities.

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.