I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?