Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings.

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.