I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

If a man be self-controlled truthful wise and resolute is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.