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.

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.

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.

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 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 is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

You must be wise and act with wisdom

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

I make movies based on gut.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.