If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

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.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.