Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business filled with prima donnas - including this one.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done his aim fulfilled they will say: we did it ourselves.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Often the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past regret for their fading beauty.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

My grandfather was a man when he talked about freedom his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it so I signed up for acting instead.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger depression drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything now he was up he was happy he was filled with his dream.