I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.