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 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 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.

Death is complicated."-Johann Kraus

I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.