I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

The secret of charm is bullshit.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.