Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.