It's very important to know the history and region going into it.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

Don't confuse love with the fear of being lonely...

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.