I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

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 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.

Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others

We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.