The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

The devil is more interesting than God.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

History remembers most what you did last.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows.

conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain

Some people talk about finding God as if He could get lost.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

In order to forgive, you must have blamed.