Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

God is master architect of our lives.

I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

we are so scornful when we are young!

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

Too much is the same as not enough.