I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.