Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

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.

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness.

Humility is the most undervalued godly virtue.

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!