Do not dehumanize others.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

At every age we play the same game, just by different rules.

We always say that the times change, but truly speaking, the time remains the same, it is we who occur along the timelines.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

God improvises. Man systematizes.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.