The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.

X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.

We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.