Words are not brains, you know.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

If you find that you “disagree” with something I’ve written, then you missed the point!!

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as He did.

T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.