My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I owe my father everything.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

Hunger's a great spur.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Bit naïve, isn’t it? So much for the Age of Enlightenment.”“I grew up believing in dragons, ” du Bois pointed out.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

We all need a laugh and I guess you're just the one.

Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.