"I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck."
"Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it."
"I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money."
"I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen."
"I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films."
"I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard."
"Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres."
"Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy."
"You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation."
"There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose."
"In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in."
"I'm not revolted by Washington."
"There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck."
"I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie."
"The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill."
"I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic."
"I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them."
"I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company."
"The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances."
"The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody."
"I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown."
"I'm not going to make general comments about the British press."
"Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate."
"I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope."
"What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here."
