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Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

My life is not my own business.

I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

I'm composing and writing music.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Guilt is the thief of life.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I'm glad I'm not young anymore. I don't want to start all over again.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then ... that's what makes life worthwhile.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

I was hell bent on destruction ... it was like being possessed by a demon.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I've got a great sense of humor.

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense ... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I never make conscious decisions.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad ... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

I love life because what more is there?

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged ... and found wanting.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I'm always cast in these strange men ... that's not me, really.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

Today,is the Tomorrow I was so worried about Yesterday

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I like to take it easy.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.