I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

Every morning, the sun rises with endless possibilities that give you endless opportunities to begin again and to create a brand-new life.

The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

Some people never need to let up at all.

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.