Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.

Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.

It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day