I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I lead a very boring life.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.