Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

We speak of love when we destroy nature.It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.