“It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American acto...” — F. Murray Abraham Quote

“It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act as well as they can.”

“With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?”

“I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.”

“I suppose there wasn't a well-worn path into the British space programme because we didn't really have a space programme. Dad was one of the pioneers of it.”

“I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.”

“One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.”