I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.
On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look. . . I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.
I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee. ' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.
It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.
To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed. " I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.