I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

Sometimes it is the methods of learning, more so, than what is learned, that is useful!

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.