I'm famous for being a silky midfielder.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

It’s because we help out when they’re in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.

I love Christmas. Christmas is family time.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.