When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.

Politics is applied biology.

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

It's a blessing to have the support that I do. The support from the people. To get all the love from them, is just amazing and it keeps me going day by day.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them