Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

May you find endless enthusiasm to achieve your dreams in the coming year.

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You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.