There is no such thing as collective guilt.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.