I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust.

Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.