I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

It's a Slobberknocker!

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.