Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

It strikes me as unChristian that we often have more charitable attitudes toward ideological allies than we do toward brothers and sisters in Christ with whom we disagree on matters of politics.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

Basketball is a pure invention.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.