My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.