Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

I am what my past allows me to be.

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

If your vision doesn’t compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small.

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.