English Quotes

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I love playing for people.

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I don't wish my career on anyone.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.