Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

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

That's no moon. It's a space station.

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.

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

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