I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

Life is magical for a lover.

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is.

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.