I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

I wear black all the time.

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

The fact that I still want the best for the world is kind of amazing. People slandered me for years and years and years. I would say to them, "Thanks for having a closed mind".

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.