The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They’re going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say Wall Street.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.