If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.