My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

You cant please all the people all the time.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Despite his flaws, one has to admit that he is a whale-sized catch.”“I’ll be thrilled when someone harpoons him, ” Lillian muttered, making the other two laugh.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.

During a heat wave every dude stinks.

In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.