I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

The devil is more interesting than God.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

History remembers most what you did last.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?