Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-running card games or word games like Boggle.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.
I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor. "
A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.