I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.

It’s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether it’s just because you’re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.

I wasn't really happy in school and didn't really have anything else going for me; I wasn't really good at anything. Drama was at least something I loved and was really passionate about.

What I always say is, "Look good, feel good, play good."

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.

I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me.

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

I'd send Christina Aguilera to Mars cos she'd scare all the aliens!

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.