Some actors play themselves, don't they?

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining, heavy even when empty.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.