I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

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.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

The worst is likely to be behind us.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.