The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness, a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life.

Think of God more often than thou breathest.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

If you know it, but you're not living it, you don't own it.