You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Who gave fire permission to burn?

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

Not yet hardened, many young die good.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208