I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework.

We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure