I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

What your soul needs is a check up.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.