I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.