If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.
Sherlock and Watson are a love story
You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.
There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.