I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.