When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Those who own much have much to fear.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.