Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Please clean up after your dogma.

Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

The key to my collections is sensuality.