loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

When you hear the echoes of my mind, you'll know that I wasn't listening to what you said.

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.

Leisure time is when your wife can't find you

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.