I’m addicted to Altoids. I call them ‘acting pills.’
I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.
I don’t think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there’s behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.
I am my age. I’m not making any effort to change it.
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven’t been the most adored.
You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
It’s important not to base your ambition on anybody else’s history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people’s stories.
I just don’t think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can’t think straight. I don’t think age has that much to do with it.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
I’m like old shoes. I’ve never been hip. I think the reason I’m still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
Starring in a science fiction film doesn’t mean you have to act science fiction.
Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it’s misinterpreted.
I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.
It’s always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.
My older kids are fantastic people. It can’t be the result of my influence on them.