English Quotes

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

My time with my family is a priority.

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.