Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.

I don't care if you dream big or small. Do shit.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.