My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

When you love, the whole universe loves you back.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.