We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you.

Two men look out the same prison bars one sees mud and the other stars.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.