I'd love to try my hand at something else.

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.

By extending love and comfort to the broken places around us, we keep watch with Jesus in his sorrow.

Maslow was right... Insecurity is main source of ego and aggression... Achievements and success leads to humbleness... It takes a lifetime... to understand nothing matters..

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.