Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.