There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.