The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!