All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

Never get too hung up on mistakes.