Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Don't take my hate personal. I hate even myself.

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

It’s bad enough barging into Guild property, but we’ll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won’t stop at sarcasm. He might use’ - Colon swallowed - ‘irony.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

I do what I do instinctively, and that’s me. If you like me, that’s fine; if you don’t like me then don’t watch me.

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.