You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

God is my fortress.

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Very few people say no to the ­Grammys.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?