If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

My siblings are my best friends.

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Good service is a great inchantment.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.