I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.
That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty. . . no better than a beauty contest.
I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.
There is room in history for all of us.
This is not about charity, it's about justice. . . The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that. . .
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.