My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.