By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her" - Page 165

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.