You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.

Human beings are not primarily thinking creatures. We are creatures driven by our loves.

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

I love myself, I no longer need Cupid...

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.