I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Hav

In deep of suffering, I found my soul.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

Tuesday will be a tough night for me. It's like to return to the family who have not seen you for a long time. I spent a wonderful time there.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

I only tweet if I discover something that's fantastic, or if I heard something really great.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.