I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...

Love is all about... whistles.

I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

We have to play as a team at our best every night.

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past