Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is.

I would never want to move to L.A.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.