Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Every empire eventually falls.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.