I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

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.'

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.

Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

We turn from the light to see.

Not here not there not anywhere!

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

I essentially write for myself.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.