My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

To come to Christ costs you nothing, to follow Christ costs you something, to serve Christ will cost you everything.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.