I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

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.

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

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.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.