I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.

He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

It wasnt the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say theyve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more

I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

Poetry is and should not be explained It’s not a theory not a formula or a set patternIt’s a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.