I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

The world and it's people are my church".~R. Alan Woods [1996]

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.