I'm a workaholic.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I'm a workaholic.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Extra work sucks. Get out quick.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat but water under the boat is its support.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

If you like ice cream, why stop at one scoop? Have two, have three. Too much is never enough.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Getting the rebound and going, that's probably the most fluid part of my game.

I am strong and healthy.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you jealousy disappears.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.