I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Hang on to hope.

Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.