I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.