I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

You cant please all the people all the time.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.