It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

Desire +Stability = Resolution, Resolution +Hard work=success

Golf is the Great Mystery.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.