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

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

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.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

I think good things come to good people.

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

I know you are, but what am I?

I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor