The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

The best investments are in things you cannot buy.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.