I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

There is no more final end than death

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost.

People you associate with or choose to deal with are the most important people who will shape your destiny.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.