“In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.”

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

I’m the audience’s representative on earth.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.

I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!