A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back.

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.

One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.

I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.

If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.