I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.

I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.