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

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

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

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'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.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.