I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

Do you have a shoulder to cry on?Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

I got to watch some of Hillary Clinton's debates against Barack Obama. She treated him with terrible disrespect.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.