I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

God is a luxury I can't afford.

I'd love to be a writer one day

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.