You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.