You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.

Height gives you the initiative.

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

Love is a many trousered thing.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.