My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic,...

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

I urge the Government to look carefully at scrapping the entire burden of regulation on micro-businesses with, say, three employees or fewer.

As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what...

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

I'm a massive pessimist.

If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it's been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just...

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a...

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.