Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

I never dated much. I dated one girl before my wife, and that was it.

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.