I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

State: 'It's a pleasure to be here' and offer a cup of coffee.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth

I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.