I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare

The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

All men have One Master, the Maker.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.

Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory

Success is the reward for toil.

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.