I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.