If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.

The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.

We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations.

In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.