English Quotes

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

There wasn't very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for 'Battlestar.'

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

There are no instant solutions.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!