Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And theres a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you dont need to do so.
I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.
People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.
If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.