Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Only when you are in trouble do you realize who your true friends are… And, my dear, you will be surprised!

Whether this blood was daemon, human, or something else, it was still only blood, and blood was only the ink of life.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

Hollywood is the only place on earth that has more vampires, more undead, more resurrections than a month of Easter Sundays.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.