Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

We live in a description of reality.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.