My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

There would never be anyone else. Not if he lived a thousand lifetimes.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?