The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

The power of positive thinking doesn't assure a fulfilled life unless it is accompanied with one's true purpose in life.

Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart.

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

My mother was the making of me.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.