I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.