I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Some people come into your life like a flower. She fills your heart with love, amuses your mind with her beauty, and leaves you with enduring joy because she once touched your life.

You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be.

You are the owner and keeper of your word. Distribute them wisely.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.