I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

Some men are warriors and some men are weenies. The trick is figuring out which is which.

I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.

Other people's minds aside, not even my own mind flows in the way that I wish.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.