I was born and raised Catholic.
Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.
People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
I mean, it's difficult not to take influence from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield because they both had such great versions of the character. I think from Tobey I'm taking his sort of less cool side of things, whereas Andrew was very cool and very sort of contained. But then with Andrew, I thought his Spider-Man was fantastic.
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism. . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences. ” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good. ” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective. ” “Hyacinth. ” “Noun. Verb. Adjective. ” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.
I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.