I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

Life is mostly froth and bubble

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.