I am the shadow on the moon at night<br>Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.
Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
I am the shadow on the moon at nightFilling your dreams to the brim with fright.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.
And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.
Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.