I die in almost every film I've been in.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Falling in love is one of most beautiful emotions one can feel. You haven’t lived your life, if you haven’t loved.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.

There is zero evidence for god.

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.