I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

You need to have a WhyHaving a “Why” whatever it is, becomes food. It makes your dreams become more urgent.

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

Errors are many, truth is unique.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.