“Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That’s all an actor is. He’s like a serious Bruce Forsyth.”

I’m Winnie the Pooh – that’s as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It’s about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

I’m very romantic. I’ve emptied flower shops.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

It’s your life, live it your way.

One of the things I’ve realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: ‘Look love, I’m a simple man. I love you.

I’m a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

I thought if I could capture some of that expression, that depth of emotion, it will make me interesting to watch as an actor.

What would I have done if I wasn’t an actor? Probably rob banks.

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn’t do just one thing.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

I don’t believe in leaving a scene in because it was really hard to shoot, or because it’s the reason you took the movie, or because you always wanted to work with an actor . . . If it’s not making the movie work, get rid of it.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.