With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I'm too much of a big kid.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Wherever you are and whatever you do, I hope you find the time to dwell in your favourite memories. It is one of the most beautiful and relaxing things we can do, no matter when and no matter where.

Things do not change we change.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

The greatest sin is sinning against love.

I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country