I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.