I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.