My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

All I know is, being away from you......makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much

Food is love, " I replied."No, babe, it ain't. But makin' it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is, " Take returned.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.