My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

If you do not get to her time...............He will cut out her heart & feed it to the fishes...." Alice

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress