The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.
Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
I've never bought a sports car.
I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
It is never a perfect time or a right time to step aside. But for me, this is the time. I want to share with you my decision that I will not be a candidate for any office in November of 2014.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
I was never religious.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.
Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
