I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Three-letter word that kills you for sure - Ego.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.