I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.