I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.