To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
[If you could have 10 minutes in a room with Barry Bonds]. . . I'd ask him for another half hour. And then I'd probably start with the obvious and see how honest he would get. I just think those guys are so protected, that you're not going to get much out of them.
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.
Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.