If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

I love working in New York.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I have a very deep religious belief.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

We are a strong democratic country.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.

My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.