Been Quotes

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.

Continents of memory had been lost.

But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

My whole family’s been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.

I haven’t been an actor who’s been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it’s been about putting food on the table.