As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

You are soft person you said. But you're soft as shit: it is very soft but stinking!

I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.

I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.