I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.