I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

Sometimes the only way to gain someones favor is to stop giving them yours.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

When I go in to the recording studio, I already know almost exactly what I am going to do, but when I go to set, it is really a wildcard. I have no idea what is going to happen.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.