I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

I will form good habits and become their slave.

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

Do not be a stupid, unless someone is paying you to be.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

We're out of nuclear-crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode.