There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.