Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.