Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.