At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

God’s will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God’s will also is that we avoid sin.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

If the beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, but when living itself becomesthe Friend, lovers disappear.

Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.