If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

God has no business with irresponsible people.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

Every painting tells a story.

Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.