For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

The knight knew he was of good breeding and noble blood, that his reputation was sterling. He had no dalliances. He was a highly decorated Knight of the Round Table.

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

Love is where you find it.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.