I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

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 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.

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

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.

It's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

God's love supply is never empty.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected