You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire.

Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

I'm welding the bimbo room shut.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.