"To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth."

“The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego”

“In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.”

Source : "As A Latina, Sonia Sotomayor Says, 'You Have To Work Harder'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 13, 2014.

“Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 09, 2015

“The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.”

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

“Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.”

“I've never met a successful pessimist.”