I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy reigns Unending love, amazing grace!

Earth's sweat, the sea.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.