I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.