Life is easy greediness adds complexity

Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

Darkness became her world...

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

What is the use of a new-born child ?

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation