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

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

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.

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.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

There's always challenges to everything.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.