Actor Quotes

I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

I love con-men characters in film.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

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

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.