Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

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.

The physical world we live in is just the beginning.

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

... I've run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.