I like fixing things.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

Pedestals are always lonely.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

You are not in this world. This world is inside you.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.