I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.

For ye will know not love, if ye knoweth not your God.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

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