It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

People ask you questions so you can reveal to them God’s intention

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.