When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?

If you can walk, you can run.

Oh, that peace may come.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.