If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.

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

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

I trust the flow of life.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

Everything popular is wrong.