And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

In fact, pro wrestling is strong.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation