Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

You cant please all the people all the time.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

I've changed so much. Look at me! I'm eating scones on a bed with a pirate!

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Death is an engineering problem.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.