I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.

Some things a lady doesn't tell.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesnt become a bird overnight.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.