The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around.“Arguin’, ” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.