As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

I obviously invented Solipsism

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.