I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

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.

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.

A day without love is like a day without life.

Be worried if you always flock in the company of people who peel off other people's skins with their teeth in their absence. A time will come when they'll try to pick a bite on you too!

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.