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 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.

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

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

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.