I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.

It's a small closet."... "It's a walk-in the size of Rhode Island, " he teased... "Isn't that just like a man to exaggerate the size of something?

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

I'm not super-athletic.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.