I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

What is the meaning of Religion? The revelation of the hidden and unknown power of this human body, and to know that infinite power of this human body is the religion.

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

It's important to think of every customer as an online celebrity with followers, friends, & above all influence

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.