Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

I always wanted to box.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.