As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.

I'm a believer. I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in the brotherhood of mankind. I believe in humanity.

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.

I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not quite the same. It doesn't move quite as fast.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.