I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.