I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

He says they're not his type, but I don't really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.