Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.

Persistently worrying yourself over what life throws at you never makes it better but deters you from your set goals in life.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.