I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

It would be fun, ” Skulduggery nodded. ”I like kicking Wreath in the face. I haven't had a chance to do it nearly as much as I'd like.

The universe is amply supplied with night.

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

I am not throwing away my shot.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.