Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.
Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.