Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.