I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.