We lack rituals in this modern world.

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

This above all; to thine own self be true.