"The kind of thing which I collect I can always carry back with me to the studio and study at leisure. I am fascinated…"

"It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out t…"

"Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting."

"In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain. You have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in …"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"