I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

What truly captivated Rachael were her eyes—wide, deer-like, yet hauntingly sinister green with flecks of gold dancing in silent mirth.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.