I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a grea….

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It`s a nightmare..

There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products a….

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the deta….

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable..

To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy ….

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other chara….

I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the ed….

I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then movin….

I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every w….

Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the characte….

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be frie….

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And ….

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly..

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts..

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams..

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success..

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams..

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams..

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game..

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams..