When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

To have a rich mind is better than to have a rich bank account.

Positive and negative attitudes are both contagious but only one is helpful.

A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.