I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

Sounds like you've got it all planned out." "Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes." "And that's a lot." I laugh. "It sure is," she says with a sigh.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.