Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, " I said. "We have a protractor.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.