I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

But there's a juicy artery in your groin, " he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide."Don't you talk dirty, " I told him. "I won't listen to that.

just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607