It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night, " he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

What you are will make you what you will become.