Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

Know what you do not know.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

There's always a little bit of disappointment. At the same time, number one, [Hillary Clinton] made a great choice. Secondly, I'm 41. And so I feel like - that I'm excited about the years to come.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.