"If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job."

“You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.”

“It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.”

Source : "Secrets and lives". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

“When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.”

“Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.”

“With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.”

“I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.”

“I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.”

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

“The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.”