Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

Today you have to run faster to stay in place.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.