There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world. These are children compared to me. Donald Trump is not a child.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.