I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.