You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
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.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.
It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.