About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.