There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India