The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.