You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

I try to be athletic.

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.