I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

Her beauty is a mastery of peace.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

We're gonna build up our forces, including the Army.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine.

Religion and science look at reality differently.